Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Families, Housing and Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

there are around eight million Coptic Christians living in Egypt;

(b)

freedom of religion is a universal human right;

(c)

Egypt is obliged under international law to ensure the protection of racial and religious groups and individuals; and

(d)

Coptic Christians in Egypt continue to suffer religious persecution and discrimination; and

(2)   calls upon the Egyptian government to guarantee that Coptic Christians and members of other religious communities and minorities enjoy the full range of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

to move:

That this House:

(1)

notes that the Iranian Government has:

(a)

persistently breached universal human rights standards;

(b)

ignored the requests by international bodies to protect the rights and freedoms of all its people;

(c)

practised blatant discrimination against religious minorities, including Bahai’s, Christians Sunni Muslims and Jews;

(d)

repressed religious minorities; and

(e)

persecuted individuals because of their religious beliefs; and

(2)

calls upon the Iranian Government to guarantee that all people in Iran are accorded their human rights and basic freedoms, including the right to free speech, to practise their religion, to be free from persecution, and to be accorded justice according to the rule of law.

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