Human Rights In Iran And Sanctions Against Iranian Officials

EDM number 576 in 2010-12, proposed by Alec Shelbrooke on 21/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Human rights and Iran.

That this House supports the imposition and enforcement through the United Nations of an international travel ban and personal financial sanctions on the 15 leading Iranian officials named in the Men of violence report published by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and held responsible in that report for carrying out the brutal repression against peaceful protestors and civil society activists detailed on the website of the Iran Human Rights Group; considers that those repressive measures were in direct contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and further supports the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, which backs Iranian human rights activists and defenders of the civil, political, social and economic rights Iran is obliged to uphold as a subscriber to the international framework of human rights treaties and standards.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.