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Use Of Music As An Instrument Of Torture

EDM number 352 in 2008-09, proposed by Janet Anderson on 17/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Crimes of violence, Human rights and North America.

That this House notes and objects to the incessant playing of high volume music by United States interrogators as a form of psychological torture used to break prisoners; further notes that the existence of this practice has been acknowledged by the US's Psychological Operations Company; defends the human rights of all human beings as laid out by the Geneva Convention; and therefore believes that torture, including this practice of using music, is inhumane and a breach of these rights; further believes that the particular practice of using music as an instrument of torture is an infringement of creator's rights; supports the Musician's Union's principled protest, through the Zero dB initiative, against this practice; and urges the Government to exert whatever diplomatic pressure is available to end this practice and the practice of torture in all countries.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Janet Anderson17/12/2008Rossendale and DarwenLabourProposed
Peter Luff17/12/2008Mid WorcestershireConservativeSeconded
Richard Younger-Ross17/12/2008TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSeconded
Neil Gerrard17/12/2008WalthamstowLabourSeconded
Doug Naysmith17/12/2008Bristol North WestLabourSeconded
John McDonnell17/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Frank Cook17/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming17/12/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis17/12/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Anne Begg17/12/2008Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore17/12/2008HendonLabourSigned
Harry Cohen17/12/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan17/12/2008Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Julie Morgan17/12/2008Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley18/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Jo Swinson18/12/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Williams18/12/2008CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Mike Hancock18/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Amess18/12/2008Southend WestConservativeSigned
Jeremy Corbyn18/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Robert Key18/12/2008SalisburyConservativeSigned
Brian Iddon18/12/2008Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins18/12/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Evan Harris18/12/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan18/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Lepper12/01/2009Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty12/01/2009Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Betty Williams12/01/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Jim Devine13/01/2009LivingstonLabourSigned
Desmond Turner13/01/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
David Drew13/01/2009StroudLabourSigned
John Cummings13/01/2009EasingtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton13/01/2009GowerLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd14/01/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Ann Cryer14/01/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Janet Dean14/01/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington14/01/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson21/01/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Hamilton22/01/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Adrian Bailey26/01/2009West Bromwich WestLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins27/01/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Norman Baker03/02/2009LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley23/02/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn

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