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Westminster Hall
Modern Day Slavery: Pakistan - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The last time was to visit some religious minorities, in particular the Ahmadiyya Muslims, and the time - Speech Link
2: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) Their crime, in the eyes of the law, is simply to call themselves Muslim. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion or Belief: UK Foreign Policy - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) At the community level, social hostilities involving religion are also on the rise, further reducing - Speech Link
2: Shockat Adam (Ind - Leicester South) Does he agree with me and with Amnesty International that there are more than 1 million Muslim Uyghurs - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) These actions are a direct and intentional threat to our local community first and foremost, but also - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It is a Muslim country, but it has a pluralistic society. Is that the work of President el-Sisi? - Speech Link
5: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) In Uganda, near where I used to work, a community is suffering intense persecution. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) I am sure that on 19 July the whole community will want to come out and support the LGBT community in - Speech Link
2: Nick Timothy (Con - West Suffolk) Do they include the Muslim Council of Britain? - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I wish to raise the deeply concerning situation facing the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Pakistan, where - Speech Link
4: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) right to buy when it comes to community assets. - Speech Link
5: Jessica Toale (Lab - Bournemouth West) It has caused great worry in the local community and I know that ours is not the only coastal community - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisoners of Conscience - Thu 01 May 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Montagnard Christian from Vietnam detained for his faith; Mahvash Sabet, a member of the Baha’i community - Speech Link
3: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) Those in prison today for their beliefs, be they Christian, Ahmadiyya Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) freedom of thought, conscience and religion”.However, the reality faced by many—including the Baha’i community - Speech Link
5: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) For example, in November last year, we joined an important statement that condemned anti-Muslim hatred - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 03 Apr 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) On the Muslim holy day of Eid, Ahmadiyya Muslim worshippers across the Punjab and Sindh provinces of - Speech Link
2: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) I recently had the honour of attending Renfrewshire council’s provost community awards to celebrate the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Jammu and Kashmir: Human Rights - Wed 05 Mar 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Smith (Lab - Hyndburn) our community, but many live with anxiety about the future for their relatives in the region. - Speech Link
2: Tahir Ali (Lab - Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley) It is for the international community to come together to make that happen. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) community, remain a cause for concern. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The Ahmadiyya Muslims are suffering persecution simply because they are of a different kind of the Muslim - Speech Link
5: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Friern Barnet) Gentleman refers to the Ahmadiyya, but that is mainly an issue in other parts of the region. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Pakistan: Freedom of Religion - Thu 28 Nov 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We ask the Minister to do something about that.I want to take up the plight of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Ind - Hayes and Harlington) Gentleman’s point, as I am sure others will, about the Ahmadiyya community. - Speech Link
3: Alex Ballinger (Lab - Halesowen) The level of discrimination is quite outrageous.I am lucky to have a significant Ahmadiyya community - Speech Link
4: Luke Taylor (LD - Sutton and Cheam) Tahir Iqbal, president of a local Ahmadi Muslim community, was shot dead by two motorcyclists. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pakistan: UK Aid - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Minority community members get into a cycle of illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, and early and often - Speech Link
2: Lord Harries of Pentregarth (XB - Life peer) There is a high level of suicides among this community due to this distressing economic situation. - Speech Link
3: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) community faces.The right reverend Prelate asked about safe and legal routes. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) In the Muslim-majority north of the country, the proportion of Christians is much lower. - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Muslim community reporting difficulties, or in the Gulf, in Bahrain or Saudi Arabia, we reject the persecution - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
International Freedom of Religion or Belief Bill
2nd reading - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) Member for Congleton has raised, for example, the treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The statements underline the ongoing concerns to the international community, and set out how to address - Speech Link