§ 21. Dr. M. S. Millerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those British subjects who are presently in Arab gaols and what information he has about which of them have suffered inhuman punishments such as lashing or torture.
§ Mr. RentonThere are currently 33 British citizens imprisoned in Arab countries. It is not our practice to reveal names of persons detained abroad without their consent. Three have been sentenced to strokes of the cane. One claimed that he had been tortured and we raised his allegations with the authorities concerned but they have denied them.