Hilary Benn – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Hilary Benn on 2016-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment the Government has made of whether Daesh has been responsible for (a) crimes against humanity and (b) ethnic cleansing.

Mr Philip Hammond

The Government is appalled by the brutal human rights abuses and violations of humanitarian law perpetrated by Daesh. There have been many credible reports of Daesh crimes, including public executions, torture, bodies routinely mutilated and put on public display, and mass executions. Any conviction of a person for Crimes Against Humanity, will be decided by a court after consideration of all the evidence available in the context of a credible judicial process.