Death Penalty: United Arab Emirates

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 28 Mawrth 2017.

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Photo of Tobias Ellwood Tobias Ellwood The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 12:00, 28 Mawrth 2017

I will certainly look into that consular case and get back to the right hon. Lady. Many countries in the Gulf and across the wider middle east are advancing their justice systems, but many of them have existed as independent centralised countries for less than 50 or 60 years. That is not an excuse for continuing to have outdated practices in the 21st century, but I will do my best to provide her with an update.