Detention Of Abdullah Ocalan

EDM number 907 in 2008-09, proposed by Mark Oaten on 26/02/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Asia and Human rights.

That this House notes with deep concern the continued isolation and reported ill-treatment of Abdullah Ocalan on Imrali Island since 1999; further notes that in 2005 the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber unanimously concluded on his case that the applicant did not have a fair trial and that the Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee defined physical and psychological assaults against him as torture; believes that a fully inclusive and peaceful solution to the Kurdish question in Turkey is possible and should be pursued by the Turkish government as a priority; and calls on the Government to raise the treatment and continued confinement of Abdullah Ocalan with the Turkish authorities and support a sustainable solution to the Kurdish question.

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