HC Deb 17 July 1967 vol 750 cc171-2W
Mr. Marten

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will list the British subjects who are under arrest, detention or otherwise detained in overseas countries for alleged crimes of a political or similar nature, showing the alleged crime, the country of detention and the date when arrested.

Mr. William Rodgers

There is only one British subject of United Kingdom origin in detention for political reasons in overseas countries for whose relations with the United Kingdom I am responsible, namely Gerald Brooke, arrested in the Soviet Union on 25th April, 1965, and sentenced to five years detention on charges arising from the importation of subversive literature into the Soviet Union.