Bahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of Death Debate

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Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Bahrain: Prisoners Under Sentence of Death

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts
Thursday 9th July 2020

(3 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Cleverly Portrait James Cleverly
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A number of right hon. and hon. Members have raised these oversight bodies. It is important that there is oversight of the process, so oversight bodies need to exist. It is important that those oversight bodies improve, and we are seeking to improve them. The Government of Bahrain desire to improve those oversight bodies and we are helping them to do so. Where a country with which we have had relations for more than two centuries explicitly seeks to improve the transparency, effectiveness and resilience of its institutions, we will seek to help it provide that improvement.

Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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In order to allow the safe exit of hon. Members participating in this item of business and the safe arrival of those participating in the next, I am now suspending the House for three minutes.