Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor George Galloway (Labour), on Tuesday, 2 May 1995, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 24 members in total.

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HOSTAGES IN IRAQ

That this House congratulates the work of the Glasgow based Committee for the Release of Hostages and Detainees in Iraq and especially their intention to hold a day of action in June to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the incarceration of hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish citizens and the expulsion from their homeland of many hundreds more; asks the Government to put the issue of those hostages and detainees at the top of its agenda during any contacts with the Iraqi government; demands an answer from the Iraqi government about the fate of these hostages; and further demands their immediate release thus giving them their freedom and bringing about an end to the suffering of their deported families many of them now taking asylum in the United Kingdom.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1073 

Session

1994-95

Subjects

Human rights Iraq Hostage taking Kurds

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk