Bahrain Asylum Seekers In Britain

EDM number 457 in 1994-95, proposed by George Galloway on 24/01/1995.

That this House deplores the emergency visit to London by the Foreign Minister of Bahrain Royal dictatorship Shaikh Muhammed al-Khalifa, who has demanded a meeting with the Foreign Secretary of Her Majesty's Government to demand the deportation of Bahraini opposition leaders Shaikh Ali-Salman, Shaikh Hamza al-Deiri and Sayad Haidar al-Setri, who were illegally expelled by the dictatorship on 15th January following weeks of rioting in Bahrain in which demonstrators have been shot dead by the British Mercenary led security apparatus, SIS, which, together with Saudi Arabian special forces, have been employed by the dictatorship to crush demands for human rights and democracy, and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to stand up to the dictators of Bahrain and inform them that Britain will determine its own decisions on the granting of political asylum to those fleeing persecution in their own countries in accordance with the United Kingdom's international obligations and its traditions of safe haven for the victims of dictatorships.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.