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Release Of Mohamedou Ould Slahi From Guantanamo Bay

EDM number 563 in 2016-17, proposed by Tom Brake on 18/10/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Administration of justice, Human rights, North America and Prisons.

That this House warmly welcomes the news that after 14 years of imprisonment without charge Mohamedou Ould Slahi, the acclaimed author of the Guantanamo Diary, has been released from Guantanamo Bay and reunited with his family in Mauritania; congratulates the legal team led by Nancy Hollander for their years of work in campaigning for Mohamedou Ould Slahi's release; condemns the torture he received in Guantanamo Bay through his designation as one of two special projects personally approved by then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; notes that the former Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay has stated that the US administration has no further evidence that Mohamedou Ould Slahi engaged in acts of hostility towards the US; applauds Mohamedou Ould Slahi for writing an award winning 466 page handwritten manuscript about his time in Guantanamo Bay; and calls on the Government to press the US President to honour his previous intentions to close Guantanamo Bay.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan01/01/2016FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon05/01/2016StrangfordDUPSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins05/01/2016Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Tom Brake18/10/2016Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratProposed
Angus MacNeil21/10/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySeconded
Alex Salmond21/10/2016Seconded
Chris Law21/10/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown21/10/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Martin Docherty24/10/2016West DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Alan Meale24/10/2016MansfieldLabourSigned
Liz Saville Roberts24/10/2016Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Drew Hendry24/10/2016Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson24/10/2016East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Hywel Williams25/10/2016ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Natalie McGarry25/10/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Norman Lamb26/10/2016North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Deidre Brock26/10/2016Edinburgh North and LeithScottish National PartySigned
Hannah Bardell27/10/2016LivingstonScottish National PartySigned
Mark Williams27/10/2016CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Gethins31/10/2016North East FifeScottish National PartySigned
Peter Grant01/11/2016GlenrothesScottish National PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell16/11/2016Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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