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Palestinian Prisoners Day

EDM number 1283 in 2006-07, proposed by Ann McKechin on 17/04/2007.

That this House, in marking Palestinian Prisoners Day held on 17th April, draws attention to the conditions of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and detention centres; notes that of the 9,789 prisoners, 780 are administrative detainees held without charge or trial for indefinite periods of time, 398 are 18 years old and under and 120 are women; abhors the continued detention of the 41 Palestinian Legislative Council Members since the Hamas election victory and the imprisonment of Government Ministers up until the recent Unity Government; is alarmed at the on-going accounts of violations of the right to family visits, the right to worship, the right to receive correspondence, the right to humane conditions of detention and transfer, to adequate food and medical care, and the right to a fair public trial; further notes that such violations constitute a breach of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions; believes that the issue of Palestinian prisoners constitutes a running sore fuelling the conflict; and calls on the UK Government to apply political pressure to Israel to end its decades-long practice of arbitrary arrests and detention, in particular of democratically elected parliamentarians.

This motion has been signed by a total of 68 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann McKechin17/04/2007Glasgow NorthLabourProposed
Richard Burden17/04/2007Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSeconded
Crispin Blunt17/04/2007ReigateConservativeSeconded
Colin Breed17/04/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Ann Clwyd17/04/2007Cynon ValleyLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley17/04/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Phyllis Starkey17/04/2007Milton Keynes South WestLabourSigned
Tom Brake17/04/2007Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lindsay Hoyle18/04/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Jim McGovern18/04/2007Dundee WestLabourSigned
Katy Clark18/04/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Andrew George18/04/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings18/04/2007EasingtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer18/04/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton18/04/2007GowerLabourSigned
Paul Holmes18/04/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn19/04/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Ian Gibson19/04/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones19/04/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson19/04/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins20/04/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lyn Brown20/04/2007West HamLabourSigned
Harry Cohen23/04/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Stephen Williams23/04/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Kerry McCarthy23/04/2007Bristol EastLabourSigned
Mike Hancock23/04/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Eddie McGrady23/04/2007South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell23/04/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell23/04/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Lepper23/04/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Brian Iddon23/04/2007Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz24/04/2007Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Betty Williams24/04/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Hywel Francis24/04/2007AberavonLabourSigned
Vincent Cable24/04/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Karen Buck24/04/2007Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
John Horam24/04/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Nicholas Soames24/04/2007Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Greg Pope24/04/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd24/04/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Clare Short25/04/2007Birmingham, LadywoodIndependent LabourSigned
Brian Jenkins25/04/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Janet Dean25/04/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Mark Durkan25/04/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Ian Stewart25/04/2007EcclesLabourSigned
Gavin Strang25/04/2007Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Michael Weir25/04/2007AngusScottish National PartySigned
David Anderson25/04/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt26/04/2007CrawleyLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard26/04/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis30/04/2007Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Martin Linton30/04/2007BatterseaLabourSigned
Frank Cook30/04/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson01/05/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff01/05/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Bill Etherington02/05/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Diane Abbott02/05/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
David Hamilton02/05/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
George Galloway08/05/2007Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Michael Jabez Foster08/05/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
John Hemming09/05/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dowd16/05/2007Lewisham WestLabourSigned
Albert Owen17/05/2007Ynys MLabourSigned
Jim Devine24/05/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
Denis Murphy07/06/2007WansbeckLabourSigned
Eric Illsley20/06/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Joan RuddockUnknownWithdrawn
Sadiq KhanUnknownWithdrawn

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