Parliament Website

Bahrain Asylum Seekers In Britain

EDM number 457 in 1994-95, proposed by George Galloway on 24/01/1995.

That this House deplores the emergency visit to London by the Foreign Minister of Bahrain Royal dictatorship Shaikh Muhammed al-Khalifa, who has demanded a meeting with the Foreign Secretary of Her Majesty's Government to demand the deportation of Bahraini opposition leaders Shaikh Ali-Salman, Shaikh Hamza al-Deiri and Sayad Haidar al-Setri, who were illegally expelled by the dictatorship on 15th January following weeks of rioting in Bahrain in which demonstrators have been shot dead by the British Mercenary led security apparatus, SIS, which, together with Saudi Arabian special forces, have been employed by the dictatorship to crush demands for human rights and democracy, and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to stand up to the dictators of Bahrain and inform them that Britain will determine its own decisions on the granting of political asylum to those fleeing persecution in their own countries in accordance with the United Kingdom's international obligations and its traditions of safe haven for the victims of dictatorships.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway24/01/1995Glasgow HillheadProposed
Jimmy Hood24/01/1995ClydesdaleSigned
Robert Litherland24/01/1995Manchester CentralSigned
William McKelvey24/01/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Alan Meale24/01/1995MansfieldSigned
Brian H Donohoe24/01/1995Cunninghame SouthSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie24/01/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
Tommy Graham24/01/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Irene Adams24/01/1995Paisley NorthSigned
James Wray24/01/1995Glasgow ProvanSigned
Jim Dowd25/01/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Harry Barnes25/01/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
John Gunnell25/01/1995Leeds South and MorleySigned
Neil Gerrard25/01/1995WalthamstowSigned
Bill Michie25/01/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ian McCartney25/01/1995MakerfieldSigned
Greg Pope25/01/1995HyndburnSigned
Max Madden25/01/1995Bradford WestSigned
Colin Pickthall26/01/1995West LancashireSigned
Alan Simpson26/01/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Eric Illsley26/01/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Richard Burden26/01/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Harry Cohen26/01/1995LeytonSigned
John Cummings26/01/1995EasingtonSigned
Janet Anderson26/01/1995Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Audrey Wise26/01/1995PrestonSigned
Ken Livingstone06/02/1995Brent EastSigned
Roger Godsiff15/02/1995Birmingham Small HeathSigned

Download raw data as csv or xml.