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Execution Of Political Prisoner, Hojjat Zamani, By The Iranian Regime

EDM number 1728 in 2005-06, proposed by Rudi Vis on 01/03/2006.

That this House notes with great concern the ever worsening state of human rights in Iran and the intensification of repression in that country since President Ahmadinejad took office in August 2005; further notes reports by the United Nations, the European Union and international human rights organisations condemning the widespread abuse of human rights in Iran including systematic discrimination against and abuse of women and religious and ethnic minorities, limitations on freedom of expression, the use of inhumane punishments and widespread executions including those of minors; observes the recent exertion of yet further pressure on political prisoners in Iran; condemns in the strongest possible terms, the execution by the Iranian regime on 7th February 2006 of Hojjat Zamani, a member of the People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran, who had endured physical and psychological torture since his imprisonment in the summer of 2001, because he remained steadfast in his political beliefs; calls on the Government to abandon its failed policy of engagement with the Iranian regime and instead to adopt a firm policy beginning with referral of the Iranian regime's human rights abuses to the UN Security Council; and urges the Government and the United Nations unequivocally to condemn the Iranian regime and to take concrete steps to save the lives of other political prisoners in Iran who are on death row.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rudi Vis01/03/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourProposed
Bob Spink01/03/2006Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Alan Meale02/03/2006MansfieldLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer02/03/2006KeighleyLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley02/03/2006Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Andrew Dismore02/03/2006HendonLabourSeconded
David Drew02/03/2006StroudLabourSigned
Martin Caton03/03/2006GowerLabourSigned
Robert Wareing03/03/2006Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Colin Burgon06/03/2006ElmetLabourSigned
Mike Hancock07/03/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech07/03/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd07/03/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Alan Simpson07/03/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice07/03/2006PendleLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins08/03/2006TamworthLabourSigned
Stephen Williams08/03/2006Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Lazarowicz09/03/2006Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Michael Clapham09/03/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Derek Conway09/03/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Alasdair McDonnell20/03/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John Hemming20/03/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Binley27/03/2006Northampton SouthConservativeSigned
Stephen Hepburn18/04/2006JarrowLabourSigned
Bill Etherington18/04/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Diana Johnson19/04/2006Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar02/05/2006Glasgow CentralLabourSigned

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