{"id":54433,"date":"2015-02-26T19:08:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=de6e6b3617b652273b4f11b7e0353ecf"},"modified":"2015-02-26T19:08:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T19:08:43","slug":"press-release-fco-welcomes-us-decision-to-refer-british-national-death-sentence-for-further-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54433","title":{"rendered":"Press release: FCO welcomes US decision to refer British national death sentence for further consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Hugo Swire said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The British Government welcomes the Appeal Court\u2019s decision to refer Linda Carty\u2019s case back to the District Court for further consideration.  We have concerns about Ms Carty\u2019s case and have regularly raised this issue with the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to provide consular assistance to Ms Carty through the next stage of the legal process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As is well known, the British Government opposes the death penalty in all circumstances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HugoSwire\">@HugoSwire<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Swire welcomes US decision to refer Linda Carty\u2019s case for further consideration. The UK opposes the death penalty in all circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}