Guantãnamo Bay Detention Camp

EDM number 780 in 2007-08, proposed by Sarah Teather on 24/01/2008.
Categorised under the topics of International law, Military operations, North America and Terrorism.

That this House congratulates and supports the worldwide demonstrations marking the sixth anniversary of the opening of the Guantãnamo Bay Detention Facility by the Bush administration and regrets that the camp remains a devastating scar on America's human rights; condemns the refusal to offer prisoners a free and fair trial and considers this to be in breach of the fundamental principles of American justice and the democratic values the war on terror purports to defend; believes that evidence gained under torture is both immoral and unreliable and expresses concern that prisoners include former child soldiers such as Omar Khadr who was seized at the age of 15 years; supports the United States Administration's stated wish to close the camp but notes that this is only possible if foreign governments agree to accept back their own citizens and residents; and calls on the British Government to take a stronger line on human rights abuses perpetrated by the US and to step up diplomatic pressure on the international community to work with the US to have Guantãnamo Bay closed.

This motion has been signed by a total of 50 MPs.