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KENYAN GOVERNMENT'S ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY

EDM number 974 in 1994-95, proposed by David Steel on 05/04/1995.

That this House is concerned at the continuing harrassment and detention of opposition Members of Parliament in Kenya, and in particular the imprisonment of oppositon Members of Parliament Mr Njenge Mungai and Mr Linus Oluoch Polo on charges of sedition; notes with grave concern the continuing abuses in the protracted trial of Koigi Wa Wamwere and others who face the death penalty on charges of armed robbery; concurs with Article 19 which has concluded that the accused are undergoing an unfair trial on false, politically-motivated charges, based on fabricated evidence; condemns the Kenyan government for threatening the main daily newspaper, the Nation, and other publications and organisations critical of its actions; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to protest in vigorous terms at these undemocratic developments and to do so in particular in the various international agencies which are committed to the promotion of good governance.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Steel05/04/1995Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleProposed
Peter Hain05/04/1995NeathSigned
Alan Beith05/04/1995Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
Tony Worthington05/04/1995Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Martyn Jones18/04/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
John Cummings18/04/1995EasingtonSigned
Michael Clapham19/04/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jim Wallace19/04/1995Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Hugh Bayley19/04/1995York, City ofSigned
John Battle19/04/1995Leeds WestSigned
Harry Barnes19/04/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Hilary Armstrong19/04/1995North West DurhamSigned
John Evans19/04/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Jim Dowd19/04/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Bill Michie19/04/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Charles Kennedy19/04/1995Ross and Cromarty and SkyeSigned
Lynne Jones19/04/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Peter Pike19/04/1995BurnleySigned
Win Griffiths20/04/1995BridgendSigned
Paul Tyler20/04/1995North CornwallSigned
Norman Godman20/04/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Alex Carlile20/04/1995MontgomerySigned
Nick Harvey20/04/1995North DevonSigned
Peter Hardy20/04/1995WentworthSigned
Ian Davidson20/04/1995Glasgow, GovanSigned
Andrew Faulds21/04/1995Warley EastSigned
Stephen Timms21/04/1995Newham North EastSigned
Clive Soley24/04/1995HammersmithSigned
Kim Howells24/04/1995PontypriddSigned
Robert Wareing24/04/1995Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Audrey Wise24/04/1995PrestonSigned
Michael Connarty25/04/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Ray Michie25/04/1995Argyll & ButeSigned
Alice Mahon25/04/1995HalifaxSigned
Terry Patchett25/04/1995Barnsley EastSigned
Eddie Loyden26/04/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Menzies Campbell26/04/1995Fife North EastSigned
Mike Hall26/04/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Colin Pickthall27/04/1995West LancashireSigned
Ken Livingstone27/04/1995Brent EastSigned
Roland Boyes28/04/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Russell Johnston02/05/1995Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Jack Thompson02/05/1995WansbeckSigned
Malcolm Chisholm11/05/1995Edinburgh LeithSigned
Malcolm Bruce17/05/1995GordonSigned
Archy Kirkwood22/05/1995Roxburgh & BerwickshireSigned
Don Foster22/05/1995BathSigned

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