Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the imprisonment of Narges Mohammadi in Iran.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office continues to closely monitor the case of Narges Mohammadi. We raise human rights issues at all appropriate opportunities bilaterally with Iran and in international fora, and we continue to work with the international community to press Iran to improve its dire human rights record. The UK government has announced ten rounds of human rights sanctions since 2022, most recently on 15 September 2023. Our sanctions target political, security and prison officials involved in the repression of protests, torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners, unfair trial processes and the use of the death penalty. At the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, the UK co-sponsored the Iran Human Rights Resolution which set out our serious concerns about Iran's continued human rights abuses. Following their meeting in Tokyo earlier this month, G7 foreign ministers issued a joint statement expressing deep concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.