Yemen

EDM number 457 in 1997-98, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 13/11/1997.

That this House expresses concern at the increasing number of human rights violations in the Republic of Yemen despite the recent extensive reports calling for an end to human rights abuses in that country by Amnesty International, the United States State Department, Human Rights Watch and other non-governmental organisations; notes with concern that the recent wave of arrests of activists from oppositionparties, including doctors, lawyers, poets and others, is continuing despite international condemnation; regrets that these arrests were in violation of the law of the land and the Yemeni constitution; is gravely alarmed at reports that some detainees have been tortured; deplores the Yemeni authorities' attempts to suppress press freedom by banning the publication of the newspaper al-Haqiqa; and urges the Government to exert pressure on the Yemeni authorities to abide by United Nations Resolutions 924 and 931, the recent European Parliament Resolution on Yemen and the undertaking given by the government of Yemen to the Security General of the United Nations on 7 July 1994 to safeguard fundamental human rights and seek national reconciliation, with particular reference to the Yemeni Civil War of 1994.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.