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Patrick Grady Excerpts
Tuesday 22nd January 2019

(5 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Field Portrait Mark Field
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My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are and remain deeply concerned by the recent reports of the renewed wave of persecution of LGBT folk in Chechnya. Both the Foreign Secretary and my right hon. Friend the Minister for Europe and the Americas have in the past week made it clear to their Russian counterparts that we must stop such persecution and hold those responsible to account.

Patrick Grady Portrait Patrick Grady (Glasgow North) (SNP)
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What discussions about the human rights situation have Ministers had with the Government of Colombia, either directly or through the embassies, following the bombing of the police academy in that country?