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Case Of Raif Badawi In Saudi Arabia

EDM number 113 in 2015-16, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 10/06/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Human rights and Middle East.

That this House is appalled that the sentence handed down last May against Saudi blogger and activist Raif Badawi, of flogging, to be administered very harshly in public, with 50 lashes scheduled once a week for 20 weeks, as well as 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of one million riyals, has been upheld by the Saudi Arabia Supreme Court; notes that no further judicial appeal is possible and that his flogging may resume on 12 June 2015; deplores this cruel and inhumane punishment which seriously injured Mr Badawi when he was given 50 lashes in January 2015 and poses a serious risk to his life; continues to strongly support his right to freedom of expression and that of all Saudi Arabian citizens; and calls on the Government to strongly condemn the use of this barbaric punishment and to press King Salman bin Abdulaziz to grant Mr Badawi clemency and allow him to join his family in Canada.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Clwyd10/06/2015Cynon ValleyLabourProposed
Jeremy Corbyn10/06/2015Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan10/06/2015FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jonathan Edwards11/06/2015Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
Jim Shannon11/06/2015StrangfordDUPSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins11/06/2015Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Michael Weir11/06/2015AngusScottish National PartySigned
Martyn Day11/06/2015Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Fiona Mactaggart11/06/2015SloughLabourSigned
Caroline Lucas11/06/2015Brighton, PavilionGreenSigned
Natalie McGarry15/06/2015Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Virendra Sharma15/06/2015Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Neil Gray15/06/2015Airdrie and ShottsScottish National PartySigned
Chris Stephens15/06/2015Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Peter Bottomley15/06/2015Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Liz McInnes15/06/2015Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham15/06/2015Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie15/06/2015South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alan Meale15/06/2015MansfieldLabourSigned
Owen Thompson15/06/2015MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Kirsten Oswald15/06/2015East RenfrewshireScottish National PartySigned
Paul Flynn16/06/2015Newport WestLabourSigned
Rachael Maskell16/06/2015York CentralLabour/Co-operativeSigned
Alistair Carmichael16/06/2015Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Thangam Debbonaire16/06/2015Bristol WestLabourSigned
John McDonnell16/06/2015Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Anderson16/06/2015BlaydonLabourSigned
Martin Docherty16/06/2015West DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Nick Thomas-Symonds16/06/2015TorfaenLabourSigned
Liz Saville Roberts17/06/2015Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Grahame Morris17/06/2015EasingtonLabourSigned
Lady Hermon17/06/2015North DownIndependentSigned
Ronnie Campbell17/06/2015Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Andrew McDonald17/06/2015MiddlesbroughLabourSigned
Mark Williams18/06/2015CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Callum McCaig18/06/2015Aberdeen SouthScottish National PartySigned
Mary Glindon18/06/2015North TynesideLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden22/06/2015Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Clive Lewis22/06/2015Norwich SouthLabourSigned
Zac Goldsmith22/06/2015Richmond ParkConservativeSigned
Stephen Kinnock23/06/2015AberavonLabourSigned
Sarah Champion23/06/2015RotherhamLabourSigned
Jeff Smith24/06/2015Manchester, WithingtonLabourSigned
Sammy Wilson24/06/2015East AntrimDUPSigned
Roger Godsiff24/06/2015Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Mike Gapes29/06/2015Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Carol Monaghan01/07/2015Glasgow North WestScottish National PartySigned
Yasmin Qureshi02/07/2015Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Matthew Pennycook06/07/2015Greenwich and WoolwichLabourSigned
Alan Brown21/07/2015Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Mhairi Black21/07/2015Paisley and Renfrewshire SouthScottish National PartySigned
David Crausby21/07/2015Bolton North EastLabourSigned

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