Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the use of torture in the Sanandaj prison in the Kurdish majority north-west of Iran; and whether they have made representations on this to the government of Iran.

We continue to be concerned by reports of torture in Iranian prisons, and in particular by reports of deaths resulting from torture of those detained in Sanandaj prison for participating in the recent protests. On 11 January, the Foreign Secretary underlined to Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif that international obligations on human rights should be observed.