Cranfield expert comments on Foreign Select Committee report on UK relations with Iran
Published 18 Dec 2020
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Commenting on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report, ‘No prosperity without justice: the UK’s relationship with Iran’, Dr Anicée Van Engeland, Associate Professor at Cranfield University, said:
“The report highlights the need for the UK Government to foster a long-term, international response that addresses Iran’s human rights record, regional security and the nuclear issue. The recent execution of the dissident Ruhollah Zam demonstrates Iran’s continuing poor human rights record and why the international community must find an approach that addresses the need for justice.
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16th December 2020
The Guardian report on the decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to extradite Malka Leifer to Australia. Leifer is a former principal accused of sexually abusing girls at a Melbourne school and is wanted on 74 sexual assault charges. She fled to Israel in 2008 after allegations against her surfaced. Australia formally requested her extradition six years ago, but the case dragged on for several years, leading to straining relations between Israel and Australia. Israel’s Justice Minister, Avi Nissenkorn, welcomed the decision by the Supreme Court and wrote on twitter “After long and torturous years, the time has come to do justice to Leifer’s victims. I intend to sign the extradition order without delay.”
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at her parents’ home after temporary release from Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran, March 17, 2020
Members of the UK Parliament have called for action over Iran’s holding of British political prisoners.
In a Tuesday report, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee recommended designation of the detentions as “State hostage taking”. They called for proscription of the Reovlutionary Guards, which carries out and oversees the imprisonments, as a “terrorist” organization.
At least four UK-Iran dual nationals are in prison or under house arrest on electronic tag, all condemned to lengthy sentences.
Among them is the charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, seized in April 2016 as she was leaving Iran after a visit to relatives. Sentenced to five years for “espionage”, she was granted furlough in the spring amid the spread of Coronavirus. However, the former administrator for BBC Media Action has been repeatedly t
Big Four auditors employ hundreds of Chinese Communist Party members
One Chinese Government website described a KPMG partner as making the red gene take root in KPMG .
15 December 2020 • 7:03pm
The Big Four accountants have employed more than 2,000 members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including at least one partner in every firm.
At least 400 KPMG staff had CCP membership in 2016 according to documents seen by
The Telegraph - with one partner praised by a Chinese state website for making the red gene take root .
Meanwhile EY and Deloitte each employ more than 800 party members, including Deloitte s deputy director in China. Some senior staff at PwC are members too, including at least one partner
No, Not Gowon!, By Wole Olaoye
As a former officer and gentleman, the least that Hon (Lt. Col.; retired) Thomas Georg John Tugendhat MBE VR, Member of Parliament for Tonbridge and Malling and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, can do in the circumstances is to apologise to Gowon and Nigeria.
When you are used to interacting with moral midgets, you will burst an artery when confronted with a giant of relative propriety. Hon. Tom Tugendhat of the British Parliament is so dishonourable that, even now that he has been told by all and sundry that his allegations of looting against General Yakubu Gowon are false, he has refused to do the honourable thing apologise.