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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Japan: Capital Punishment (9 October 2015)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the government of Japan on the abolition of the death penalty in that country.

Asked by:
Mark Pritchard (Conservative)

Answer

We remain strongly opposed to the death penalty. Together with EU partners, we will continue to express our opposition to the death penalty. We recently co-funded a report on Japanese attitudes to the death penalty and will use this report to influence Japanese policy makers.


Answered by:
Lord Swire (Conservative)
16 October 2015

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