Foreign Affairs Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
Human Rights Annual Report 2008

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21 July 2009.

Oral evidenceTaken before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday 10 June 2009

Members present:

Mike Gapes, in the Chair

Mr. Fabian Hamilton	Sandra Osborne
Mr. John Horam	Mr. Ken Purchase
Mr. Eric Illsley	Sir John Stanley
Andrew Mackinlay	Ms Gisela Stuart

CONTENTS

Witnesses: Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK, Clive Stafford Smith OBE, Director, Reprieve, and Benjamin Ward, Associate Director for Europe and Central Asia, Human Rights Watch, gave evidence.

Resolved, That the Committee should sit in private. The witnesses gave oral evidence. Asterisks denote that part of the oral evidence that has not been reported either because it is covered by the House of Commons' sub judice resolution, or at the request of a witness.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-39

40-55

Members present:

Mike Gapes, in the Chair

Mr. Fabian Hamilton	Sandra Osborne
Mr. Eric Illsley	Mr. Ken Purchase
Andrew Mackinlay	Ms Gisela Stuart

Witnesses: Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International, and Tom Porteous, London Director, Human Rights Watch, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

56-59

60-79

80-90

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Prepared 9 August 2009