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Torture In Bahrain

EDM number 460 in 1996-97, proposed by George Galloway on 29/01/1997.

That this House notes with concern the urgent action called for by Amnesty International over the eight leaders and religious figures arrested by the authorities in Bahrain on 22nd January 1996, who have now spent more that one year in incarceration without trial and who are being held and are believed tortured under the notorious State Security Law passed in 1974; observes that the Government of Bahrain gave assurances to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in February 1992 that 'there would be no further detentions under the 1974 State Security Act' and that the assurance was relied upon by the British Government in correspondence in August of that year; further notes mounting international concern about the imprisonment without trial of those agitating for a return to constitutional government in Bahrain and the role played by the Head of State Security and by the British mercenary, Ian Henderson, in the torture and murder of demonstrators and detainees; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government urgently to intercede with the Government of Bahrain with a view to ending the excesses of the State Security forces, the use of the State Security Law, which allows prisoners to be held for up to three years without charge, and the State Security Court, within which dozens of prisoners have been sentenced to everything from imprisonment for three years up to life imprisonment and in some cases sentenced to death.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway29/01/1997Glasgow HillheadProposed
Jimmy Hood29/01/1997ClydesdaleSigned
Robert Litherland29/01/1997Manchester CentralSigned
John McAllion29/01/1997Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey29/01/1997Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Tommy Graham29/01/1997Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Irene Adams29/01/1997Paisley NorthSigned
James Wray29/01/1997Glasgow ProvanSigned
Tony Banks30/01/1997Newham North WestSigned
Harry Barnes30/01/1997North East DerbyshireSigned
Lynne Jones30/01/1997Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Peter Hardy30/01/1997WentworthSigned
Dennis Skinner30/01/1997BolsoverSigned
Kevin McNamara31/01/1997Kingston upon Hull NorthSigned
Ken Livingstone03/02/1997Brent EastSigned
John Cummings03/02/1997EasingtonSigned
Norman Godman03/02/1997Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Gunnell03/02/1997Leeds South and MorleySigned
Bill Michie04/02/1997Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Robert Wareing04/02/1997Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Dennis Turner04/02/1997Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Andrew Faulds04/02/1997Warley EastSigned
Jeremy Corbyn04/02/1997Islington NorthSigned
Harry Cohen04/02/1997LeytonSigned
Richard Burden04/02/1997Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Alan Meale05/02/1997MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke05/02/1997MidlothianSigned
Mike Hall06/02/1997Warrington SouthSigned
Rachel Squire10/02/1997Dunfermline WestSigned
Audrey Wise10/02/1997PrestonSigned
Alex Carlile11/02/1997MontgomerySigned
Michael Connarty11/02/1997Falkirk EastSigned
Martyn Jones13/02/1997Clwyd South WestSigned
John Battle13/02/1997Leeds WestSigned
Nick Harvey19/02/1997North DevonSigned
Terry Davis05/03/1997Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned

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