To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what estimate his Department has made of the number of political prisoners in Kuwaiti prisons.
Answered on
15 April 2019
We do not hold details of the number of political prisoners. However, we regularly discuss human rights and reform with the Government of Kuwait - including at the biannual UK-Kuwait Joint Steering Group meetings. If we have specific concerns around convictions or sentencing, we raise these with the Government of Kuwait as part of our wider dialogue on human rights and reform.
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