Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make immediate representations to the King of Saudi Arabia calling for the executions of Sadiq Thamer and Jaafar Sultan to be urgently halted.

The United Kingdom strongly opposes the death penalty in all countries and in all circumstances, as a matter of principle. I raised UK concerns about the death penalty with the Saudi Ambassador on 23 May 2022. The British Embassy in Riyadh raised concern regarding recent executions with the Saudi Ministry of Justice on 26 May 2022. Ministers and senior officials will continue to raise UK concerns about the death penalty with the Saudi authorities.