Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations the Government has received from Amnesty International and other NGOs on reports of actions taken by the Iranian authorities to destroy the mass graves of people who were massacred in 1998.

​We have received various reports from NGOs relating to the destruction of mass graves, including Amnesty's latest report on the subject "Criminal cover-up: Iran destroying mass graves of victims of 1988 killings". We continue to take action with the international community to press for improvements on all human rights issues in Iran. When a new UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran is appointed, we will be calling on Iran to grant them access to the country so they can investigate human rights concerns reported there.