Iran: Prisoners
(asked on 4th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations his Department has made to the government of Iran on the cases of (a) Kamal Foroughi and (b) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
This question was answered on 11th July 2016
The Foreign Secretary, my Right Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) last discussed these cases with Foreign Minister Zarif on 4 July. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Director of Consular Services raised all of the detained UK-Iranian dual nationals with the Iranian Chargé d’affaires on 29 June, as did I, with the Iranian Chargé on 18 May. The British Embassy in Tehran continues to raise all our consular cases with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently on 4 July. Iran does not recognise dual nationality of Iranian citizens which prevents information being provided to us about their detention.
The Foreign Secretary, my Right Hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) last discussed these cases with Foreign Minister Zarif on 4 July. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Director of Consular Services raised all of the detained UK-Iranian dual nationals with the Iranian Chargé d’affaires on 29 June, as did I, with the Iranian Chargé on 18 May. The British Embassy in Tehran continues to raise all our consular cases with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently on 4 July. Iran does not recognise dual nationality of Iranian citizens which prevents information being provided to us about their detention.