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Vigil At The Saudi Arabian Embassy

EDM number 1017 in 1994-95, proposed by George Galloway on 20/04/1995.

That this House notes with concern the vigil outside the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Mayfair, on 21st April organised by the Committee for the Defence of Legitimate Rights held to protest against the continuing repression against political opposition, demanding democracy and human rights in Saudi Arabia; expresses its solidarity with all political prisoners in Saudi jails; supports the International Day of Solidarity with the scholars of the Arabian Peninsula; and calls upon the Royal Dictatorship of Saudi Arabia to release immediately all political detainees.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway20/04/1995Glasgow HillheadProposed
Jimmy Hood20/04/1995ClydesdaleSigned
Robert Litherland20/04/1995Manchester CentralSigned
William McKelvey20/04/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie20/04/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
Tommy Graham20/04/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Irene Adams20/04/1995Paisley NorthSigned
James Wray20/04/1995Glasgow ProvanSigned
Bill Michie21/04/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Norman Godman21/04/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Harry Barnes21/04/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Kim Howells24/04/1995PontypriddSigned
Robert Wareing24/04/1995Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Clive Soley24/04/1995HammersmithSigned
Lynne Jones25/04/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
John Cummings25/04/1995EasingtonSigned
Eddie Loyden26/04/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Mike Hall26/04/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Alan Simpson27/04/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Ken Livingstone27/04/1995Brent EastSigned
Jim Dowd27/04/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Roland Boyes28/04/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Peter Hardy01/05/1995WentworthSigned
Martyn Jones02/05/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Terry Davis10/05/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned

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