Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he has made to his Iranian counterparts on the report to the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council by Ms Asma Jahaigir, on human rights violations in that country in 1988.

The British Government opposes the use of the death penalty in all circumstances and takes any allegations of extrajudicial killings seriously. Whilst at present we have no plans to raise the 1988 executions, we continue to take action with the international community by pressing for improvements on all human rights issues in Iran, including ending the death penalty, and by supporting the work done by the Special Rapporteur.