Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the government of Iraq about reports by the Associated Press that 19,000 people accused of links to ISIS are being held in detention; and whether they will seek to discover whether there has been due judicial process for 3,000 of those people reported to have been sentenced to death for alleged membership.

We are aware of reports of the detention and prosecution of Daesh-linked individuals in Iraq. We remain clear that, where there is evidence that crimes have been committed, members of Daesh should be brought to justice, in accordance with due legal process.We discuss human rights issues – including the importance of due process and the right to a fair trial – in our conversations with the Government of Iraq. In particular, we regularly raise our concerns with the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Prime Minister's Advisory Council and the Chief Justice. Her Majesty's Ambassador to Iraq recently set out our concerns about the application of the death penalty with the Iraqi Justice Minister. We will continue to raise this issue with the Iraqi Government.