Question follow-through · 44069

Nicaragua: Human Rights and Religious Freedom

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his counterpart in Nicaragua on the suppression of (a) human rights and (b) religious freedoms in that country.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
7 Apr 2025
Answer
9 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has made representations to his counterpart in Nicaragua on the suppression of (a) human rights and (b) religious freedoms in that country.

  2. 7 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    We share widespread international concern about the relentless suppression of democratic, religious, and other freedoms in Nicaragua. We continue to urge the Nicaraguan authorities to re-establish democratic freedoms in our engagements with the Nicaraguan...

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