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<id>22810</id>
<session>2002-03</session>
<number>1206</number>
<title>Iraqi Footballers</title>
<proposer id="10645">David Winnick</proposer>
<date>2003-05-13</date>
<text>That this House recalls that on 4th December last year, the Prime Minister was challenged by an honourable Member over the mention in the document on human rights in Iraq that footballers there had been caned on the sole of their feet for failing to qualify in a World Cup football match; but notes, however, that the Guardian's report on 19th April after the liberation of Iraq carried interviews with footballers who confirmed that the punishment for losing important matches meant ritual humiliation, imprisonment, savage beatings and tortures with electric cable.</text>
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		<mp id="10645">David Winnick</mp>
		<date>2003-05-13</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Walsall North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10614">Keith Vaz</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leicester East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10211">George Foulkes</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
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		<mp id="10143">John Cryer</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hornchurch</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10120">Ann Clwyd</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cynon Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10775">David Cairns</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10761">Chris Bryant</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10327">Gerald Kaufman</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Gorton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10297">Kevin Hughes</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Doncaster North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10292">George Howarth</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley North &amp; Sefton East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11176">James Purnell</mp>
		<date>2003-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stalybridge &amp; Hyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10147">Jim Cunningham</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10184">Huw Edwards</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Monmouth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10244">Jane Griffiths</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reading East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10246">Win Griffiths</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10768">David Burnside</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Antrim</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10483">Greg Pope</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hyndburn</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10550">John Smith</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Vale of Glamorgan</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11245">Bob Spink</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10941">Tom Harris</mp>
		<date>2003-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Cathcart</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10497">Syd Rapson</mp>
		<date>2003-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11347">Huw Irranca-Davies</mp>
		<date>2003-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ogmore</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10182">Angela Eagle</mp>
		<date>2003-05-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wallasey</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10169">Andrew Dismore</mp>
		<date>2003-05-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hendon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10415">Gordon Marsden</mp>
		<date>2003-05-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blackpool South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2003-05-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10055">David Borrow</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Ribble</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10188">Jeff Ennis</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley East &amp; Mexborough</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10126">Tony Colman</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Putney</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10363">Martin Linton</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Battersea</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10359">Terry Lewis</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10556">Clive Soley</mp>
		<date>2003-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11309">Tom Watson</mp>
		<date>2003-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Bromwich East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10219">Mike Gapes</mp>
		<date>2003-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ilford South</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10140">Ross Cranston</mp>
		<date>2003-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dudley North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10460">Bill O'Brien</mp>
		<date>2003-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Normanton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10353">David Lepper</mp>
		<date>2003-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Pavilion</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10958">Lady Hermon</mp>
		<date>2003-05-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Down</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>2003-05-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10177">David Drew</mp>
		<date>2003-05-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stroud</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10044">Harold Best</mp>
		<date>2003-06-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds North West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10934">David Hamilton</mp>
		<date>2003-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10220">Barry Gardiner</mp>
		<date>2003-06-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10683">Adrian Bailey</mp>
		<date>2003-06-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Bromwich West</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10528">Mohammad Sarwar</mp>
		<date>2003-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Govan</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11095">Rob Marris</mp>
		<date>2003-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10070">Russell Brown</mp>
		<date>2003-07-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfries</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
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