§ Mr. Marlowasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many times in the past 12 months Her Majesty's Government have called upon the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to release a political prisoner or prisoners.
§ Mr. RifkindOver the past 12 months we have raised around 20 individual human rights cases with the Soviet authorities, several of them on more than one occasion, both in bilateral contacts and at the CSCE review meeting in Madrid. We have also repeatedly drawn attention to general Soviet violations of human rights.