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ARREST OF EDITOR AND OTHERS OF ZIMBABWE'S FINANCIAL GAZETTE

EDM number 1125 in 1994-95, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 15/05/1995.

That this House regrets the arrest, one week after International Press Freedom Day, of Simba Makunike, deputy editor, Trevor Ncube, editor, and Elias Rusike, chief executive of Modus Publishing, of Zimbabwe's leading independent newspaper, the weekly Financial Gazette.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Peter Bottomley15/05/1995ElthamProposed
Lynne Jones16/05/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Michael Connarty16/05/1995Falkirk EastSigned
John Cummings16/05/1995EasingtonSigned
Gordon Prentice17/05/1995PendleSigned
Ken Livingstone17/05/1995Brent EastSigned
Eddie Loyden17/05/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Harry Cohen17/05/1995LeytonSigned
Mike Hall17/05/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Neil Gerrard18/05/1995WalthamstowSigned
Helen Jackson18/05/1995Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Alan Simpson18/05/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Martyn Jones23/05/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Michael Clapham23/05/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
John Evans23/05/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Jim Wallace23/05/1995Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Jean Corston24/05/1995Bristol EastSigned
Terry Davis24/05/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Bridget Prentice25/05/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Denis MacShane25/05/1995RotherhamSigned
Alan Meale25/05/1995MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke25/05/1995MidlothianSigned

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