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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (11 Nov 2014)

Seán Kenny: 444. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied) who is subject to the death penalty after a conviction for blasphemy and is now in solitary confinement in prison appealing their sentence; if a protest has been made to the Government of Pakistan; if the matter has been raised at EU level; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (11 Nov 2014)

Charles Flanagan: ...by the Irish Ambassador accredited to Pakistan (from Ankara, Turkey) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Islamabad in 2013. The Ambassador also expressed our disquiet at the nature of Pakistan’s blasphemy law. Last week, on 6 November, our Ambassador to Pakistan visited Islamabad. In the course of his meetings there, he raised this case with a senior Foreign Ministry...

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