Human Rights Violations

EDM number 542 in 1990-91, proposed by Dawn Primarolo on 27/02/1991.

That this House congratulates Amnesty International for its exposure of human rights violations by Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey; notes that the various methods of torture involve beating the soles of the feet, sleep deprivation, hanging by the wrists and beating all over the body, rape, forcing objects into the anus and threats to sexually abuse prisoners' families, hosings with ice cold water and electric shocks to the genitals; further notes that many governments including the British Government consistently did not try to stop the human rights abuses in Iraq by their one-time friend Saddam Hussein; and therefore resolves not to give political, military or economic help to any country which persists with human rights violations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.