Mr Mark Votier

EDM number 195 in 1995-96, proposed by Tony Banks on 11/12/1995.

That this House condemns without reservation the decision of the Japanese Government to sue Mr Mark Votier for having photographed the appalling suffering inflicted by Japanese whalers on minke whales; acknowledge that the use of electrocu tion of harpooned whales is barbarous, savage and inflicts unbelieveable suffering on a sea mammal capable of far more feelings than the average Japanese butcher who slaughters them; calls upon the British Government to defend the rights of the United Kingdom's citizen Mr Votier, who has rendered a great service by exposing the hypocritical attitude and loathsome activities of the Japanese whale killers; and demands that the most vigorous protest be made to the Japanese authorities forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 115 MPs.