USA: Human Rights

(asked on 25th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to his US counterpart on (a) the use of (i) choke holds and (ii) racial profiling and (b) other human rights violations carried out by US police forces.


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Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

The Foreign Secretary has been clear that the death of George Floyd was appalling, inexcusable and deeply distressing. We hope and trust that justice will be done. The violence we've seen in the US around this is very alarming. We've been clear that people must be allowed to protest peacefully. Our Embassy in the US has raised the issue of the protests with the US Administration and have explained the very strong interest in this issue among the British public.

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