Foreign and Commonwealth Office written question – answered am ar 13 Rhagfyr 2018.
Emily Thornberry
Shadow Foreign Secretary
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent estimate he has made of the total number of political prisoners in Eritrea.
Harriett Baldwin
Minister of State (Department for International Development) (Joint with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Minister of State (Foreign and Commonwealth Office) (Joint with the Department for International Development)
The British Government has made no recent estimate of the total number of political prisoners in Eritrea, but we remain concerned at the use of arbitrary detention as a means to limit freedom of expression and freedom of religion or and belief in Eritrea. I expressed these concerns directly to the Eritrean Foreign Minister when we met in September, as well as our hope that positive developments in the region will lead to improvements in the human rights situation in Eritrea.
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