Parliament Website

Death Sentence Of Asiya Bibi

EDM number 1151 in 2010-12, proposed by Marsha Singh on 07/12/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Administration of justice, Asia and Human rights.

That this House is deeply concerned that Asiya Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, has been sentenced to death in Pakistan under the blasphemy laws; notes that she is the first woman to be sentenced to death under these laws; further notes that an appeal is pending; and calls on the Government and the international community to urgently lobby the government of Pakistan and to do everything it can to prevent such a barbaric act.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Marsha Singh07/12/2010Bradford WestLabourProposed
Mark Durkan07/12/2010FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Peter Bottomley07/12/2010Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Bob Russell07/12/2010ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jim Dobbin08/12/2010Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Ronnie Campbell08/12/2010Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Stephen Williams08/12/2010Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Blenkinsop08/12/2010Middlesbrough South and East ClevelandLabourSigned
Pat Glass08/12/2010North West DurhamLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell08/12/2010East LondonderryDUPSigned
Stephen Hepburn08/12/2010JarrowLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds09/12/2010Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Sammy Wilson09/12/2010East AntrimDUPSigned
Michael Weir09/12/2010AngusScottish National PartySigned
Mike Hancock09/12/2010Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty09/12/2010Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Alan Meale09/12/2010MansfieldLabourSigned
Naomi Long09/12/2010Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Elfyn Llwyd09/12/2010Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Lady Hermon09/12/2010North DownIndependentSigned
Jim Shannon09/12/2010StrangfordDUPSigned
Margaret Ritchie09/12/2010South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell09/12/2010Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton13/12/2010GowerLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson13/12/2010Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
John Hemming13/12/2010Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark13/12/2010North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Ian Lavery13/12/2010WansbeckLabourSigned
Eric Illsley16/12/2010Barnsley CentralLabourWithdrawn
Cathy Jamieson16/12/2010Kilmarnock and LoudounLabourSigned
Charles Kennedy20/12/2010Ross, Skye and LochaberLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Begg20/12/2010Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper20/12/2010West LancashireLabourSigned
Valerie Vaz20/12/2010Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz10/01/2011Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne13/01/2011Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Sheila Gilmore19/01/2011Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Jo Swinson11/02/2011East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders10/03/2011TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned

Download raw data as csv or xml.