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Media Freedoms In China

EDM number 476 in 2007-08, proposed by Don Foster on 05/12/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Human rights and Media.

That this House notes with concern that the Chinese government has not granted domestic journalists the freedom to travel and report at liberty during the 2008 Olympic Games; further notes that the media liberties granted to foreign journalists are due to expire on 17th October 2008; recognises concerns expressed by foreign journalists that they are still being searched and interrogated by Chinese officials; further notes that the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bid Committee promised when it was bidding for the Games that there would not be any restrictions on media reporting or the movement of journalists before and during the Olympics including in occupied Tibet; and calls on the Government to urge the International Olympic Committee to put pressure on the Chinese government to ensure that both foreign and domestic journalists are granted the complete liberty to report the truth at the Beijing Olympics without fear of intimidation or detention.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Don Foster05/12/2007BathLiberal DemocratProposed
Norman Baker05/12/2007LewesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley05/12/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Annette Brooke05/12/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Nick Harvey05/12/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Paul Holmes05/12/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Richard Younger-Ross05/12/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams06/12/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil06/12/2007Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Rudi Vis06/12/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Taylor06/12/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Andrew George06/12/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn06/12/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton06/12/2007GowerLabourSigned
Lynne Jones06/12/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle06/12/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
John Pugh06/12/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Pope10/12/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Alan Simpson10/12/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins10/12/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
John Horam10/12/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins10/12/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Derek Conway10/12/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Bill Etherington10/12/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Leech10/12/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter10/12/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan11/12/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell11/12/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson11/12/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Albert Owen11/12/2007Ynys MLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell12/12/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Colin Breed12/12/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer12/12/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Paul Truswell12/12/2007PudseyLabourSigned
Phil Willis12/12/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea13/12/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Mark Williams13/12/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley18/12/2007RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable07/01/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster07/01/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
John Bercow08/01/2008BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Willie Rennie10/01/2008Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Adam Price16/01/2008Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Jo Swinson30/01/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
John Whittingdale18/02/2008Maldon and East ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
Tom Levitt29/02/2008High PeakLabourSigned
Jeremy Browne11/03/2008TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Smith20/03/2008West Aberdeenshire and KincardineLiberal DemocratSigned
Malcolm Bruce25/03/2008GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Main26/03/2008St AlbansConservativeSigned
John Thurso27/03/2008Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossLiberal DemocratSigned
David Howarth31/03/2008CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Lady Hermon21/04/2008North DownUUPSigned
Virendra Sharma21/04/2008Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
David Chaytor23/04/2008Bury NorthLabourSigned

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