House of Lords written question – answered at on 8 April 2014.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what recent estimate they have made of the number of Egyptians in detention in that country; and whether they will make representations to the government of Egypt to encourage the swift completion of the judicial process in those cases.
The 2013 US State Department Human Rights report suggests that there are at least 62,000 Egyptian prisoners overall, including as many as 2,000 pre-trial detainees. In August 2013 the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend
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