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Omar Shakir

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 143731, tabled on 14 May 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Israeli counterpart on the revocation of the Director of Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine, Omar Shakir’s work permit.

Answered on

22 May 2018

It is for the Government of Israel to decide its immigration policy. The UK’s immigration policies and controls are similarly protected.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office