Select Committee on Foreign Affairs Written Evidence


Annex C

A SELECTION OF PARLIAMENTARY QUESTIONS RAISED ON SIKH HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS

  Mr Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs:

    1.  what representations have been made by Her Majesty's Government encouraging the Indian Government to grant access in the Punjab to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

    2.  what representations his Department has made to the Indian authorities with regard to encouraging the granting of access to the Punjab by international human rights groups.

  Baroness Cox: To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will raise with the Government of India the case of Davinder Singh Bhullar, who reportedly has been sentenced to death.

  Mr Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what representations his Department has made to the Indian authorities in the last six months concerning the case of Professor Davinder Singh Bhullar.

  James Plaskitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Indian Government about investigations into the attacks on Sikhs in Delhi in 1984.



 
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