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Nasrin Sotoudeh

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 231542, tabled on 12 March 2019

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
Labour
Slough
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his counterpart in Iran on the sentencing of Nasrin Sotoudeh.

Answer

Alistair Burt
Conservative
North East Bedfordshire
Commons

Answered on

15 March 2019

On 12 March the Foreign Secretary publicly shared his concerns about the sentencing of Nasrin Sotoudeh. We regularly raise the issue of human rights with the Iranian Government at all levels, and urge them to cease the harassment and arbitrary detention of all human rights defenders.​

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