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Arrest Of Captain Nikitin

EDM number 913 in 1995-96, proposed by David Atkinson on 21/05/1996.

That this House notes with concern the arrest on 6th February, of retired Soviet naval officer Alexandr Nikitin on a charge of high treason on the grounds that he helped to write a report published by the Norwegian Bellona Foundation, The Russian North Fleet - Sources of Radioactive Contamination, using only information which was already in the public domain; regrets that Russian law criminalises the re-publication of such material when it is declared a state secret; congratulates Captain Nikitin on his service to the people of Russia, Norway and the whole northern hemisphere in drawing attention to the risks of nuclear devastation if precautions are not taken to stop the escape of radioactive materials from old reactors; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to use their best endeavours to get the case against Captain Nikitin withdrawn.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Atkinson21/05/1996Bournemouth EastProposed
John Marshall22/05/1996Hendon SouthSigned
John Cummings22/05/1996EasingtonSigned
John Heppell04/06/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Harry Cohen04/06/1996LeytonSigned
Eddie Loyden05/06/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Mike Hall05/06/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Michael Clapham06/06/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Menzies Campbell11/06/1996Fife North EastSigned
Jack Thompson11/06/1996WansbeckSigned
Don Foster13/06/1996BathSigned
Matthew Taylor13/06/1996TruroSigned
Russell Johnston17/06/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Malcolm Bruce17/06/1996GordonSigned
Jim Wallace17/06/1996Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Ray Michie19/06/1996Argyll & ButeSigned
Alex Carlile19/06/1996MontgomerySigned
David Steel20/06/1996Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Emma Nicholson20/06/1996Torridge & West DevonSigned
David Chidgey20/06/1996EastleighSigned
Alan Simpson24/06/1996Nottingham SouthSigned
Alan Beith25/06/1996Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
David Alton26/06/1996Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Janet Anderson02/07/1996Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Diana Maddock16/07/1996ChristchurchSigned
Martyn Jones18/07/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Peter Bottomley22/07/1996ElthamSigned
Denis MacShane23/07/1996RotherhamSigned
Edward O'Hara23/07/1996Knowsley SouthSigned
Bill Michie23/07/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Lynne Jones23/07/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Nick Harvey24/07/1996North DevonSigned
Ken Livingstone24/07/1996Brent EastSigned
Bill Etherington24/07/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Llin Golding24/07/1996Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Elfyn Llwyd14/10/1996Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
William McKelvey14/10/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John Evans14/10/1996St Helens NorthSigned

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