British Mercenaries In Bahrain

EDM number 458 in 1994-95, proposed by George Galloway on 24/01/1995.

That this House expresses grave concern at the continuing savage repression against the demonstrators for democracy in Bahrain; is shocked at the presence of British hired mercenaries in the ranks of the security apparatus, SIS, of the Bahrain Royal dictatorship; in particular deplores the role of Mr Ian Henderson, the chief of the SIS and a British citizen who presided over a service which has killed at least nine people under torture, illegally deported more than 1,000 Bahrainis, warned hundreds more not to return to the country and which has, since the most recent democratic upheaval last November, shot dead six demonstrators and arrested without charge, 1,500 more and now deported three leading opposition figures to London via Dubai; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to dissociate itself from the actions of British mercenaries in Bahrain, to demand respect for basic human rights in Bahrain and to support those struggling for the restoration of the constitution in Bahrain, the establishment of representative government there and an end to the massacre of democrats there.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.