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Eritrea: Oppression

Commons · Question 75561 · Tabled 8 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 2 Oct 2025

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Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to the Eritrean authorities concerning the enforced disappearance and harassment of (a) religious leaders and (b) human rights defenders; an

Answer

Answered by Chris Elmore, 2 Oct 2025

We continue to raise the issue of human rights with the Eritrean government, both through our Embassy in Asmara and through multilateral fora. We advocate for the end of all discriminatory detentions based on religion or belief, as we have stated at the U...