The Commons Foreign Committee said it would take evidence on how cases were handled by British officials as part of a wider investigation into “state level hostage situations”
He said that it was also important to look at the wider issues raised by Iran’s use of the detainees as leverage in the debt negotiations.“The tactic is fast becoming a tool of choice for authoritarian states and recent high-profile cases have highlighted the challenges governments face when securing the release of hostages held captive by states.
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