Release Of Shaker Aamer, Last British Resident In GuantÁnamo

EDM number 547 in 2009-10, proposed by Martin Linton on 06/01/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Human rights and North America.

That this House welcomes President Obama's commitment to close Guantánamo and his appeal to European countries to take in released detainees; supports the representations by the UK Government for the release and return of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in Guantánamo; notes that Mr Aamer has been detained for nearly eight years without trial or charge; further notes that he was a UK resident before his detention and that his wife and children have always lived in this country; and urges the Government to make renewed representations to the US to secure his release and return to this country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 101 MPs.