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Persecution Of The Church In Iran

EDM number 1454 in 1993-94, proposed by David Alton on 05/07/1994.

That this House is appalled at the murder of the Reverend Tateos Michaelian, Chairman of the Council of Protestant Ministers in Iran and the disappearance of Reverend Mehdi Dibaj, an Iranian pastor who had been imprisoned for nine years by the Iranian Regime and had been sentenced to death for apostasy; notes that the Reverend Mr Michaelian had been threatened by the Iranian authorities on different occasions that he would be killed and that his predecessor, Bishop Haik Hovsepian Mehr, had also been killed in similar circumstances after several conflicts with the Iranian regime over religious liberty; calls upon the government of Iran to take action to ensure that Mehdi Dibaj is safe; notes that there appears to be a systematic plan by the Iranian Government to exterminate the leadership of the Iranian Church, and that the Iranian Government is also responsible for other gross human rights violations such as the killing of political prisoners and opponents, for the persecution of religious minorities and for the export of Islamic extremism and terrorism; and urges Her Majesty's Government to use the United Kingdom's seat at the United Nations Security Council to call for United Nations action against Iran as a matter of urgency, such action to include an international arms embargo and boycott of Iranian oil.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Alton05/07/1994Liverpool Mossley HillProposed
Anthony Coombs05/07/1994Wyre ForestSigned
Frank Field05/07/1994BirkenheadSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie06/07/1994Glasgow, PollokSigned
Dennis Turner06/07/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Roy Beggs06/07/1994East AntrimSigned
Win Griffiths06/07/1994BridgendSigned
Tommy Graham06/07/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Norman Godman06/07/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Evans06/07/1994St Helens NorthSigned
John Cummings06/07/1994EasingtonSigned
Michael Connarty06/07/1994Falkirk EastSigned
Edward O'Hara06/07/1994Knowsley SouthSigned
David Nicholson06/07/1994TauntonSigned
David Knox06/07/1994Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Gordon Prentice06/07/1994PendleSigned
Vivian Bendall07/07/1994Ilford NorthSigned
Paul Flynn07/07/1994Newport WestSigned
Derek Enright07/07/1994HemsworthSigned
Martin Smyth07/07/1994Belfast SouthSigned
Jeff Rooker07/07/1994Birmingham, Perry BarrSigned
Ian Davidson07/07/1994Glasgow, GovanSigned
Peter Hardy11/07/1994WentworthSigned
William Ross13/07/1994East LondonderrySigned
Mike Hall13/07/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Jim Wallace13/07/1994Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Robert Wareing13/07/1994Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Alice Mahon14/07/1994HalifaxSigned
Audrey Wise14/07/1994PrestonSigned
John Denham19/07/1994Southampton, ItchenSigned
Jack Thompson19/07/1994WansbeckSigned
Greville Janner19/07/1994Leicester WestSigned
Mike Gapes20/07/1994Ilford SouthSigned
John Gunnell20/07/1994Leeds South and MorleySigned
Joe Benton20/07/1994BootleSigned
Nick Harvey21/07/1994North DevonSigned
John Heppell21/07/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Simon Hughes21/07/1994Southwark and BermondseySigned
James Couchman17/10/1994GillinghamSigned
Keith Vaz17/10/1994Leicester EastSigned
Dudley Smith25/10/1994Warwick & LeamingtonSigned
Martyn Jones26/10/1994Clwyd South WestSigned

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