HC Deb 27 March 1885 vol 296 cc836-7
SIR HENRY HOLLAND

asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, What has become of Zebehr Pasha; to what place he has been taken, and whether he is to be confined in prison there; and, whether he is to be tried; and, if so, before what tribunal, and on what charges?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

Zebehr Pasha has been placed on board H.M.S. Iris, and will be conveyed to Gibraltar, where he will be detained so long as the military necessity which caused his arrest continues. It is not proposed, under present circumstances, to put him on his trial.

MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT

asked whether it was not the fact that Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Minister, had declined to have anything to do with Zebehr's arrest?

LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICE

asked that Notice should be given of the Question.

MR. GORST

gave Notice that on Monday he would ask Mr. Attorney General whether any Ordinance had been passed in the Colony of Gibraltar authorizing the detention there without trial of Zebehr Paslia?