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Persecution Of Iranian Trade Unionists

EDM number 141 in 2007-08, proposed by David Anderson on 07/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Human rights, Industrial relations and Iran.

That this House condemns the attempted assassination on 18th October 2007 of Iranian trade union activist Majid Hamidi by three masked gunmen; notes that Iranian labour activists are convinced that armed attacks of this type are done with the knowledge of the Iranian government; shares their concern that this represents a considerable escalation in persecution of trade unionists, which they have called a Colombianisation of the situation in Iran; notes the continuing imprisonment of independent trade union activists such as Mansour Osanloo, leader of the Tehran bus workers' union, as well as Mahmoud Salehi and Ebrahim Madadi, documented on the Labourt Start website; and calls upon the UK Government to press the International Labour Organisation to raise this issue as a matter of urgency with the Iranian government.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Anderson07/11/2007BlaydonLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley08/11/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Tom Brake08/11/2007Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Drew08/11/2007StroudLabourSeconded
Rudi Vis08/11/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Bob Russell08/11/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins12/11/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle12/11/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty12/11/2007Calder ValleyLabourSigned
David Crausby12/11/2007Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Katy Clark12/11/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Dai Davies13/11/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Mark Williams13/11/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock13/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster13/11/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Mark Durkan13/11/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Michael Clapham13/11/2007Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Albert Owen13/11/2007Ynys MLabourSigned
Alan Meale13/11/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Paul Holmes13/11/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Pope13/11/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn13/11/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Lepper14/11/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Martin Caton14/11/2007GowerLabourSigned
Janet Dean14/11/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Alan Simpson15/11/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Stephen Williams15/11/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer19/11/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard21/11/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
John Leech21/11/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff21/11/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins21/11/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Colin Burgon22/11/2007ElmetLabourSigned
Bill Etherington22/11/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley13/12/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Robert Wareing18/12/2007Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Vincent Cable07/01/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Bercow08/01/2008BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Menzies Campbell16/01/2008North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Lloyd21/01/2008Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell30/01/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Ann McKechinUnknownWithdrawn

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