Export Of Instruments Of Torture
EDM number 1332 in 1994-95, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 29/06/1995.
That this House is appalled by the Government's attempts to discredit Martyn Gregory, the producer of Channel Four's Dispatches programme The Torture Trail, via a criminal investigation by the Ministry of Defence police; notes the programme exposed the involvement of the British government and British companies including British Aerospace's Royal Ordnance in the export of electro-shock weapons that can be used for torture; notes that the film recently won Amnesty International's 1995 award for best television documentary; is shocked that the Ministry of Defence police have now made Mr Gregory the target of a criminal investigation and that he could be charged with incitement to break the Firearms Acts; notes that this offence carries a sentence of up to five years; believes that the Ministry of Defence police investigation is an attempt to cover up the Government's and British Aerospace's involvement in the electro shock torture trade; notes that the Department of Trade and Industry have been at the forefront of attempts to discredit Mr Gregory, that the Right honourable Member for Henley and the honourable Member for Wiltshire North and the honourable Member for Esher have accused Mr Gregory's film of scaremongering and making false and contrived charges; supports Mr Gregory's response to these unfounded allegations in starting defamation proceedings against the Department of Trade and Industry in the High Court with the full support of Channel Four; and calls on the Government to launch forthwith an independent investigation into the programme's exposure of the British trade in weapons of torture.
This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
Ann Clwyd | 29/06/1995 | Cynon Valley | | Proposed |
Bill Olner | 29/06/1995 | Nuneaton | | Signed |
Chris Mullin | 29/06/1995 | Sunderland South | | Signed |
Richard Burden | 29/06/1995 | Birmingham, Northfield | | Signed |
Stephen Byers | 29/06/1995 | Wallsend | | Signed |
Anne Campbell | 29/06/1995 | Cambridge | | Signed |
Dale Campbell-Savours | 29/06/1995 | Workington | | Signed |
Ann Coffey | 29/06/1995 | Stockport | | Signed |
Harry Cohen | 29/06/1995 | Leyton | | Signed |
Michael Connarty | 29/06/1995 | Falkirk East | | Signed |
Jean Corston | 29/06/1995 | Bristol East | | Signed |
Paul Flynn | 29/06/1995 | Newport West | | Signed |
Neil Gerrard | 29/06/1995 | Walthamstow | | Signed |
Llin Golding | 29/06/1995 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | | Signed |
Irene Adams | 29/06/1995 | Paisley North | | Signed |
Graham Allen | 29/06/1995 | Nottingham North | | Signed |
Peter Hain | 29/06/1995 | Neath | | Signed |
Joe Ashton | 29/06/1995 | Bassetlaw | | Signed |
Stephen Timms | 29/06/1995 | Newham North East | | Signed |
Paddy Tipping | 29/06/1995 | Sherwood | | Signed |
Don Touhig | 29/06/1995 | Islwyn | | Signed |
Dennis Turner | 29/06/1995 | Wolverhampton South East | | Signed |
Malcolm Wicks | 29/06/1995 | Croydon North West | | Signed |
Audrey Wise | 29/06/1995 | Preston | | Signed |
Alan Keen | 29/06/1995 | Feltham & Heston | | Signed |
Dawn Primarolo | 29/06/1995 | Bristol South | | Signed |
Terry Rooney | 29/06/1995 | Bradford North | | Signed |
Ernie Ross | 29/06/1995 | Dundee West | | Signed |
Brian Sedgemore | 29/06/1995 | Hackney South & Shoreditch | | Signed |
Alan Simpson | 29/06/1995 | Nottingham South | | Signed |
Clive Soley | 29/06/1995 | Hammersmith | | Signed |
John Heppell | 29/06/1995 | Nottingham East | | Signed |
Norman Hogg | 29/06/1995 | Cumbernauld & Kilsyth | | Signed |
George Howarth | 29/06/1995 | Knowsley North | | Signed |
Doug Hoyle | 29/06/1995 | Warrington North | | Signed |
Helen Jackson | 29/06/1995 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | | Signed |
Terry Lewis | 29/06/1995 | Worsley | | Signed |
Eddie Loyden | 29/06/1995 | Liverpool, Garston | | Signed |
Denis MacShane | 29/06/1995 | Rotherham | | Signed |
Alice Mahon | 29/06/1995 | Halifax | | Signed |
Jim Marshall | 29/06/1995 | Leicester South | | Signed |
John McAllion | 29/06/1995 | Dundee East | | Signed |
William McKelvey | 29/06/1995 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | | Signed |
Kevin McNamara | 29/06/1995 | Kingston upon Hull North | | Signed |
Bill Michie | 29/06/1995 | Sheffield, Heeley | | Signed |
Estelle Morris | 29/06/1995 | Birmingham, Yardley | | Signed |
Harry Barnes | 30/06/1995 | North East Derbyshire | | Signed |
Jim Dowd | 30/06/1995 | Lewisham West | | Signed |
Rachel Squire | 03/07/1995 | Dunfermline West | | Signed |
Russell Johnston | 03/07/1995 | Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber | | Signed |
Michael Clapham | 03/07/1995 | Barnsley West & Penistone | | Signed |
Tom Cox | 03/07/1995 | Tooting | | Signed |
Jimmy Dunnachie | 03/07/1995 | Glasgow, Pollok | | Signed |
Andrew Faulds | 03/07/1995 | Warley East | | Signed |
Janet Anderson | 03/07/1995 | Rossendale & Darwen | | Signed |
Hugh Bayley | 03/07/1995 | York, City of | | Signed |
Alex Carlile | 04/07/1995 | Montgomery | | Signed |
Jim Wallace | 04/07/1995 | Orkney & Shetland | | Signed |
Gerry Steinberg | 04/07/1995 | Durham, City of | | Signed |
John Battle | 04/07/1995 | Leeds West | | Signed |
Maria Fyfe | 04/07/1995 | Glasgow, Maryhill | | Signed |
John Evans | 04/07/1995 | St Helens North | | Signed |
John Cummings | 04/07/1995 | Easington | | Signed |
Malcolm Chisholm | 04/07/1995 | Edinburgh Leith | | Signed |
Lynne Jones | 04/07/1995 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | | Signed |
Bridget Prentice | 04/07/1995 | Lewisham East | | Signed |
Robert Parry | 04/07/1995 | Liverpool, Riverside | | Signed |
Colin Pickthall | 04/07/1995 | West Lancashire | | Signed |
Keith Bradley | 05/07/1995 | Manchester, Withington | | Signed |
Mike Watson | 05/07/1995 | Glasgow Central | | Signed |
Tony Banks | 05/07/1995 | Newham North West | | Signed |
Mike Hall | 05/07/1995 | Warrington South | | Signed |
Terry Davis | 05/07/1995 | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | | Signed |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 05/07/1995 | Leigh | | Signed |
Malcolm Bruce | 05/07/1995 | Gordon | | Signed |
Edward O'Hara | 05/07/1995 | Knowsley South | | Signed |
Ken Livingstone | 05/07/1995 | Brent East | | Signed |
Gordon Prentice | 05/07/1995 | Pendle | | Signed |
Jeremy Corbyn | 05/07/1995 | Islington North | | Signed |
Jim Cunningham | 06/07/1995 | Coventry South East | | Signed |
Bill Etherington | 06/07/1995 | Sunderland North | | Signed |
John Garrett | 06/07/1995 | Norwich South | | Signed |
Alan Wynne Williams | 06/07/1995 | Carmarthen | | Signed |
Peter Hardy | 10/07/1995 | Wentworth | | Signed |
Kim Howells | 11/07/1995 | Pontypridd | | Signed |
Martyn Jones | 11/07/1995 | Clwyd South West | | Signed |
Eric Illsley | 11/07/1995 | Barnsley Central | | Signed |
Jack Thompson | 12/07/1995 | Wansbeck | | Signed |
Llew Smith | 17/07/1995 | Blaenau Gwent | | Signed |
Mike Gapes | 17/07/1995 | Ilford South | | Signed |
John Gunnell | 17/07/1995 | Leeds South and Morley | | Signed |
Simon Hughes | 19/07/1995 | Southwark and Bermondsey | | Signed |
Roland Boyes | 19/07/1995 | Houghton and Washington | | Signed |
David Clelland | 19/07/1995 | Tyne Bridge | | Signed |
Tommy Graham | 19/07/1995 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | | Signed |
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