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Egypt: Religious Freedom

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 123428, tabled on 17 January 2018

Question

Siobhain McDonagh
Labour
Mitcham and Morden
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Egyptian Government on the arrest of 25 Ahmadi Muslims in that country on the grounds of their religion; and if he will make a statement.

Answer

Alistair Burt
Conservative
North East Bedfordshire
Commons

Answered on

25 January 2018

​I refer the Honourable Member for Mitcham and Morden to my answer to her earlier PQ on this matter (121319) on 15 January. We will continue to raise our concerns around the discrimination of religious minorities in Egypt. This includes concerns over the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly in Egypt. These rights are essential to improving the protection of Freedom of Religious Belief in Egypt.

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