Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Jun 2019
Oral Answers to Questions
"I have just returned from seeing Richard Ratcliffe, who is on the 11th day of his hunger strike in support of his wife Nazanin, who still languishes in a prison in Iran. Given the current increased tensions with Iran, what more can we do to keep Nazanin at the forefront …..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 23 Apr 2019
Sri Lanka
"Social media in this country was used on Sunday by members of the Tamil diaspora with whom I work closely to give me real-time updates and to share their horror and despair. Social media was also used in Sri Lanka to encourage people to donate blood because of the shortages …..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 09 Apr 2019
Exiting the European Union (Sanctions)
"I want to let the Minister wind up, so this is a perfect time for you to come back into the Chamber, Mr Speaker, and for me to talk about Burma for just one minute, because I know it is dear to your heart.
We are obviously still concerned about …..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Rohingya Refugee Crisis
"I congratulate the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow (Rushanara Ali) on securing the debate. Yes, the debate has been delayed, but it is always timely and it is always important to ensure that we raise our voices for the Rohingya people. I commend her powerful speech and the …..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Rohingya Refugee Crisis
"The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point about the children born in the refugee camps. Does he agree that the 13,000 children who were orphaned and then crossed the border on their own face an equally grim future?..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 20 Dec 2018
Rohingya Refugee Crisis
"As the Minister says, at the moment there is no appetite for going back. There is also a sense of hardening opinions. Whereas a year ago refugees wanted to go back if it was safe, the refugees I spoke to six months ago felt that hope was being lost...."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"While the nation and the international community rightly focus on the situation in Rakhine state in Burma, I recently met people from Karen and Chin states, and they told me some horrendous continuing stories. I am also hosting a delegation from Kachin and Shan states—..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 30 Oct 2018
Oral Answers to Questions
"Will the Foreign Secretary tell me what we are doing to tackle the situation in the whole of Burma?..."Paul Scully - View Speech
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Written Question
Friday 26th October 2018
Asked by:
Paul Scully (Conservative - Sutton and Cheam)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what his policy is on the conclusions of the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, published in March 2018.
Answered by Mark Field
The Government set out its response to the report in its reply to PQ HL6282. Since the report was published the UK has played a leading role in securing the resolution adopted at the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council in September that establishes a mechanism to collect and preserve evidence of atrocities in Burma, as called for by the Special Rapporteur. The current Foreign Secretary has stated that it is essential that the perpetrators of any atrocities are brought to justice through impartial and credible investigations.
Written Question
Friday 13th July 2018
Asked by:
Paul Scully (Conservative - Sutton and Cheam)
Question
to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations his Department has made to the Government of Pakistan on (a) the murder of Mr Muhammed Shoban on the 25 June 2018 and (b) the ongoing persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in that country; and if he will make a statement.
Answered by Mark Field
We remain deeply concerned by reports of discrimination and violence against the Ahmadiyya Muslims in Pakistan. As I stated during the backbench business debate on Ahmadiyya rights on 24 May 2018, we wholeheartedly condemn attacks on the Ahmadiyya community. We regularly raise with the Government of Pakistan at senior levels the importance of religious tolerance and its duty to uphold the rights of all Pakistan's citizens regardless of religious identity.
During my visit to Pakistan in November 2017, I raised the treatment of religious minorities, including discrimination and violence against the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, with the Ministry of Human Rights. My Ministerial colleague, the Minister of State for Commonwealth and the UN, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, discussed the issue of freedom of religion or belief, and the protection of religious minorities, with Pakistan's Interior Minister in February 2018. At the UN Periodic Review of Pakistan's human rights record in November 2017, the UK called on Pakistan to strengthen protection of minorities and establish an independent National Commission for Minorities.