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Human Rights Violations

EDM number 542 in 1990-91, proposed by Dawn Primarolo on 27/02/1991.

That this House congratulates Amnesty International for its exposure of human rights violations by Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey; notes that the various methods of torture involve beating the soles of the feet, sleep deprivation, hanging by the wrists and beating all over the body, rape, forcing objects into the anus and threats to sexually abuse prisoners' families, hosings with ice cold water and electric shocks to the genitals; further notes that many governments including the British Government consistently did not try to stop the human rights abuses in Iraq by their one-time friend Saddam Hussein; and therefore resolves not to give political, military or economic help to any country which persists with human rights violations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dawn Primarolo27/02/1991Bristol SouthProposed
Max Madden27/02/1991Bradford WestSigned
Audrey Wise27/02/1991PrestonSigned
Gavin Strang27/02/1991Edinburgh EastSigned
Tony Benn27/02/1991ChesterfieldSigned
John Battle27/02/1991Leeds WestSigned
Harry Barnes27/02/1991North East DerbyshireSigned
Maria Fyfe27/02/1991Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Tam Dalyell27/02/1991LinlithgowSigned
Bob Cryer27/02/1991Bradford SouthSigned
Harry Cohen27/02/1991LeytonSigned
Chris Mullin27/02/1991Sunderland SouthSigned
William McKelvey27/02/1991Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Brian Sedgemore27/02/1991Hackney South & ShoreditchSigned
Dennis Skinner27/02/1991BolsoverSigned
Jimmy Hood27/02/1991ClydesdaleSigned
Terry Lewis27/02/1991WorsleySigned
Eddie Loyden27/02/1991Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Alice Mahon27/02/1991HalifaxSigned
John McAllion27/02/1991Dundee EastSigned
Ian McCartney27/02/1991MakerfieldSigned
Bill Michie27/02/1991Sheffield, HeeleySigned
John Cummings28/02/1991EasingtonSigned
Norman Godman05/03/1991Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Eric Illsley06/03/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Eddie McGrady06/03/1991South DownSigned
Terry Davis06/03/1991Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Joan Ruddock07/03/1991Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
David Clelland07/03/1991Tyne BridgeSigned
Martyn Jones18/04/1991Clwyd South WestSigned
Ken Livingstone29/04/1991Brent EastSigned

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