Question follow-through · 67434
Iran: Political Prisoners and Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support (a) women and (b) political prisoners under threat from the Iranian regime.
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 6 Aug 2025 · 23 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to help support (a) women and (b) political prisoners under threat from the Iranian regime.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Aug 2025
Answer published
We continue to support women and political prisoners in Iran through sustained action alongside international partners in multilateral fora. In the past eight months, the UK was integral to the delivery of two Iran human rights resolutions. The first, ado...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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