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Human Rights In Yemen

EDM number 303 in 1997-98, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 24/07/1997.

That this House notes with concern that human rights violations continue to occur in the Yemen despite Amnesty International's report of 27th March 1997 which documented cases of the arbitrary arrest and detention of political prisoners, unfair trial and torture; notes with deep concern that no effective measures have yet been put into practice in response to Amnesty's submission, and that little progress has been made with regard to the declaration of an amnesty for political opponents or compensation of those who lost property in the conflict in Yemen; condemns the restrictions of freedom of speech and press freedom, and is deeply concerned at the banning for six months of the newspaper al-Shura, and the arrest and sentencing of the journalists Abdul Jabbar Saad and Abdullah Saad; and calls on the Government to apply pressure on the authorities in the Republic of Yemen to abide by UN Resolutions 924 and 931, to safeguard fundamental human rights, and to seek national reconciliation, with particular reference to the consequences of the Yemen Civil War of 1994, including the restitution of the confiscated property and the right of exiles to return safely.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jeremy Corbyn24/07/1997Islington NorthLabourProposed
Ann Clwyd24/07/1997Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Harry Cohen24/07/1997Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
John Cryer24/07/1997HornchurchLabourSigned
Julia Drown24/07/1997South SwindonLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard24/07/1997WalthamstowLabourSigned
Diane Abbott24/07/1997Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
John Austin24/07/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Tony Benn24/07/1997ChesterfieldLabourSigned
Audrey Wise24/07/1997PrestonLabourSigned
Bill Michie29/07/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Helen Jackson30/07/1997Sheffield, HillsboroughLabourSigned
Norman Godman30/07/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Michael Clapham30/07/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Tom Brake30/07/1997Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones30/07/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Nick Harvey31/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris Ruane27/10/1997Vale of ClwydLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/11/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington17/11/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Gunnell26/11/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Robert Wareing27/11/1997Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Harold Best02/12/1997Leeds North WestLabourSigned

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