Hostages In Iraq

EDM number 317 in 1996-97, proposed by James Wallace on 05/12/1996.

That this House calls upon Her Majesty's Government to make representations to the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, to provide information on and to release forthwith 909 Iraqi hostages detained without trial, some since April 1980, 604 Kuwaitis also held without trial, and all other prisoners of war or conscience held inside Iraq; believes that all such hostages, detainees and prisoners of war should be given freedom to join their families, whether in Iraq, Kuwait or elsewhere; and further requests Her Majesty's Government to propose to the United Nations Security Council a specific resolution giving UN human rights monitors free access and powers to visit and inspect all prisons and concentration camps, as recommended by the first International Conference on Human Rights and Kuwaiti prisoners of war, held in London on 12th and 13th March 1996.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.