Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations he has made to his Iranian counterpart on the imposition of the death penalty on those detained in connection with nationwide protests.

The UK opposes the death penalty in all circumstances. The On 9 January, the Foreign Secretary summoned Iran's most senior diplomat in the UK to protest Iran's continued use of the death penalty. This same message has been delivered repeatedly through our Ambassador in Tehran, and in London, including when Lord Ahmad spoke to the Chargé d'Affaires on 20 December. On 9 December, the UK sanctioned 10 officials connected to Iran's judicial and prison systems, including six linked to the Revolutionary Courts. On 14 January, we also sanctioned Iran's Prosecutor General, Mohammad Jafar Montazer. The regime can be in no doubt about the UK's abhorrence at the use of the death penalty against protestors.