Chen Guang Cheng

EDM number 586 in 2006-07, proposed by David Taylor on 09/01/2007.

That this House notes the four years and three months' imprisonment of 34 year old Chen Guang Cheng, a blind Chinese human rights activist; notes his crime consisted of acting on behalf of women being forcibly aborted and sterilised; notes that 130,000 women undergo forcible abortions per year as part of the coercive one-child policy; notes that Cheng, a self-taught lawyer, acting for two women whose babies were forcibly aborted only days before birth, approached the State Family Planning Commission asking them to halt such outrages; notes that in response he was placed under house arrest for three months during which he and his wife were persistently threatened by hired thugs; notes that nonetheless he succeeded in bringing the case before the Beijing courts; notes that this failed and Cheng was subsequently imprisoned for trumped up charges of damaging public property and organising villages to disrupt traffic; notes that his attorneys were detained and prevented from appearing and that neither witnesses nor evidence were presented for the defence; notes with shame that the Chinese policy is supported with British taxpayers' money through government grants made to the UNFPA, the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International, all of which finance Chinese family planning yet have failed in 20 years to change the policy of coercive abortion and sterilisation; and calls on the Government to cancel all grants to groups providing money to countries with coercive family planning policies as well as demanding that Mr Cheng be released from prison without delay.

This motion has been signed by a total of 135 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
David Taylor	09/01/2007	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Proposed
Nicholas Winterton	09/01/2007	Macclesfield	Conservative	Seconded
Jim Dobbin	09/01/2007	Heywood & Middleton	Labour	Seconded
Ann Winterton	09/01/2007	Congleton	Conservative	Seconded
David Borrow	09/01/2007	South Ribble	Labour	Seconded
David Drew	09/01/2007	Stroud	Labour	Seconded
Joe Benton	09/01/2007	Bootle	Labour	Signed
Geraldine Smith	09/01/2007	Morecambe & Lunesdale	Labour	Signed
Derek Wyatt	10/01/2007	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	10/01/2007	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Desmond Turner	10/01/2007	Brighton, Kemptown	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	10/01/2007	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Hywel Francis	10/01/2007	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
Nigel Evans	10/01/2007	Ribble Valley	Conservative	Signed
Jeff Ennis	10/01/2007	Barnsley East & Mexborough	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	10/01/2007	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	10/01/2007	Gower	Labour	Signed
Bob Spink	10/01/2007	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Paul Holmes	10/01/2007	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	10/01/2007	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	10/01/2007	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Gregory Campbell	10/01/2007	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	10/01/2007	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Robert Wilson	11/01/2007	Reading East	Conservative	Signed
Stephen Crabb	11/01/2007	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew George	11/01/2007	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Janet Dean	11/01/2007	Burton	Labour	Signed
Derek Conway	11/01/2007	Old Bexley & Sidcup	Conservative	Signed
Michael Clapham	11/01/2007	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	11/01/2007	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Bob Russell	11/01/2007	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Jenkins	15/01/2007	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Sammy Wilson	15/01/2007	East Antrim	DUP	Signed
David Wilshire	16/01/2007	Spelthorne	Conservative	Signed
Ann Widdecombe	16/01/2007	Maidstone & The Weald	Conservative	Signed
Paul Flynn	16/01/2007	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Madeleine Moon	17/01/2007	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
Michael Gove	17/01/2007	Surrey Heath	Conservative	Signed
David Burrowes	17/01/2007	Enfield, Southgate	Conservative	Signed
Angela Watkinson	17/01/2007	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Doug Naysmith	17/01/2007	Bristol North West	Labour	Signed
Gordon Marsden	17/01/2007	Blackpool South	Labour	Signed
Mark Lazarowicz	17/01/2007	Edinburgh North & Leith	Labour	Signed
Julie Morgan	17/01/2007	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	18/01/2007	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Julian Lewis	18/01/2007	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
Alan Simpson	18/01/2007	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	18/01/2007	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mohammad Sarwar	22/01/2007	Glasgow Central	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	22/01/2007	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	22/01/2007	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
John Hemming	24/01/2007	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Amess	24/01/2007	Southend West	Conservative	Signed
Nigel Dodds	25/01/2007	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Jon Cruddas	06/02/2007	Dagenham	Labour	Signed
Simon Burns	21/02/2007	West Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
Desmond Swayne	22/02/2007	New Forest West	Conservative	Signed
Ben Wallace	22/02/2007	Lancaster & Wyre	Conservative	Signed
Robert Goodwill	23/02/2007	Scarborough & Whitby	Conservative	Signed
Danny Alexander	27/02/2007	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Oaten	27/02/2007	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Albert Owen	28/02/2007	Ynys M	Labour	Signed
Bob Laxton	01/03/2007	Derby North	Labour	Signed
Anne Main	01/03/2007	St Albans	Conservative	Signed
Nia Griffith	02/03/2007	Llanelli	Labour	Signed
Patrick Hall	05/03/2007	Bedford	Labour	Signed
Susan Kramer	07/03/2007	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Willis	07/03/2007	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Truswell	07/03/2007	Pudsey	Labour	Signed
Frank Field	07/03/2007	Birkenhead	Labour	Signed
David Marshall	07/03/2007	Glasgow East	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Wright	08/03/2007	Rugby & Kenilworth	Conservative	Signed
John Bercow	12/03/2007	Buckingham	Conservative	Signed
Robert Walter	12/03/2007	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Michael Spicer	13/03/2007	West Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Michael Meacher	13/03/2007	Oldham West & Royton	Labour	Signed
Dai Davies	14/03/2007	Blaenau Gwent	Independent	Signed
Helen Jones	15/03/2007	Warrington North	Labour	Signed
John Thurso	19/03/2007	Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tim Farron	21/03/2007	Westmorland & Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jeremy Browne	22/03/2007	Taunton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Selous	26/03/2007	South West Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Tony Lloyd	26/03/2007	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
John Leech	26/03/2007	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kerry McCarthy	28/03/2007	Bristol East	Labour	Signed
Peter Bone	28/03/2007	Wellingborough	Conservative	Signed
Karen Buck	28/03/2007			Signed
Sally Keeble	28/03/2007	Northampton North	Labour	Signed
Dai Havard	29/03/2007	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney	Labour	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	16/04/2007	Hastings & Rye	Labour	Signed
Robert Syms	16/04/2007	Poole	Conservative	Signed
Keith Vaz	16/04/2007	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Mark Hunter	17/04/2007	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Philip Davies	17/04/2007	Shipley	Conservative	Signed
Mark Durkan	17/04/2007	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Norman Baker	18/04/2007	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	19/04/2007	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Frank Doran	19/04/2007	Aberdeen North	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	19/04/2007	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
John Grogan	19/04/2007	Selby	Labour	Signed
John Barrett	19/04/2007	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Daniel Kawczynski	19/04/2007	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Conservative	Signed
Adrian Sanders	24/04/2007	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Weir	25/04/2007	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
Jim Sheridan	30/04/2007	Paisley & Renfrewshire North	Labour	Signed
Don Foster	30/04/2007	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Williams	02/05/2007	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Charles Kennedy	03/05/2007	Ross, Skye & Lochaber	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Don Touhig	08/05/2007	Islwyn	Labour	Signed
Angus Robertson	10/05/2007	Moray	Scottish National Party	Signed
David Davies	10/05/2007	Monmouth	Conservative	Signed
Sian James	14/05/2007	Swansea East	Labour	Signed
Anthony D Wright	14/05/2007	Great Yarmouth	Labour	Signed
Douglas Carswell	15/05/2007	Harwich	Conservative	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	16/05/2007	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Dowd	16/05/2007	Lewisham West	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	17/05/2007	Linlithgow & Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
David Howarth	17/05/2007	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Willie Rennie	17/05/2007	Dunfermline & Fife West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adam Price	21/05/2007	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Emily Thornberry	22/05/2007	Islington South & Finsbury	Labour	Signed
John Austin	04/06/2007	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Greg Mulholland	18/06/2007	Leeds North West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Glenda Jackson	27/06/2007	Hampstead & Highgate	Labour	Signed
Jon Trickett	28/06/2007	Hemsworth	Labour	Signed
Joan Humble	11/07/2007	Blackpool North & Fleetwood	Labour	Signed
John Gummer	19/07/2007	Suffolk Coastal	Conservative	Signed
Sandra Osborne	08/10/2007	Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock	Labour	Signed
Gerald Kaufman	08/10/2007	Manchester, Gorton	Labour	Signed
Michael Penning	11/10/2007	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative	Signed
Gordon Prentice	15/10/2007	Pendle	Labour	Signed
Ann McKechin	15/10/2007	Glasgow North	Labour	Signed
Sarah Teather	Unknown			Withdrawn
Lorely Burt	Unknown			Withdrawn
Wayne David	Unknown			Withdrawn

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