HC Deb 12 November 1998 vol 319 c282W
Mr. Swayne

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what measures he has taken consequent upon the decision adopted by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on 17 September regarding the detention of George Atkinson in Dubai. [58874]

Mr. Fatchett

Our Consul General in Dubai delivered a Note Verbale to the Dubai Government on 10 November asking, in view of the decision of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, if it will release George Atkinson from detention.