HC Deb 22 July 1897 vol 51 cc707-8
MR. FLYNN

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in respect to the result of the Tokat Commission, (1) whether any of the 15 prisoners found guilty of participation in the massacre of the unoffending Armenians at Tokat, and sentenced to death (and whose sentences have been confirmed by the Council of Ministers at Constantinople) have yet suffered the penalty of the law; (2) if so, how many; and (3) if not, what is the cause of the delay of the issue of the Sultan's Iradé?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS(MR. G. N. CURZON, Lancashire, Southport)

None of the prisoners sentenced to death has, so far, been executed. The last question is one which I am not in a position to answer.