Indonesia
(asked on 27th January 2015) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his Indonesian counterpart on the use of the death penalty for EU citizens convicted of drug-related offences.
This question was answered on 5th February 2015
UK policy is to oppose the death penalty in all circumstances. Ministers and senior officials regularly raise our opposition to the death penalty with the Indonesians. The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) visited Indonesia on 4 February and raised the issue with his counterpart then.