Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) will monitor the case of a British father held in Ethiopia, among other cases, amid concerns that the government has lessened its commitment to ending human rights abuses abroad. The FAC said that there was ‘plainly a perception’ that the government had recently downgraded its commitment to the promotion of human rights, following news last August that the Foreign Office would no longer use the longstanding designation ‘countries of concern’ to denote countries associated with human rights abuses. Later an FCO official said that human rights were ‘not one of our top priorities’. Now the FAC will monitor the situation of several individuals facing abuses abroad, including Andy Tsege, a British father of three who was kidnapped at an airport in 2014 and taken to Ethiopia; he is being held under sentence of death.