Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Harry Barnes (Labour), on Tuesday, 22 March 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 38 members in total.

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GLOBAL APPEAL TO HELP AVERT ASSASSINATION OF IRAQI UNION LEADER

That this House supports the Labour Friends of Iraq global appeal, which has been supported by numerous rank and file trade unionists and others across the world, to publicise the severe threat to the life of Nozad Ismail, the President of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions in Kirkuk, who has twice escaped assassins and who receives regular death threats; believes that the self-styled resistance in Iraq is deliberately targeting the leadership of the Iraqi labour movement and, therefore, the prospects for a united, secular and democratic Iraq, as was exemplified when Hadi Saleh, the International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU) was tortured and strangled before his house was ransacked for his comrades' contact details, when Ali Hassan Abd of the IFTU's Oil and Gas Union, was gunned down in front of his children, and when Ahmed Adris Abbas of the Transport and Communication Workers Union was also assassinated in Baghdad; and appeals for the widest possible support for the Labour Friends of Iraq initiative not only from supporters of the British Labour movement but from anyone with an interest in nurturing Iraqi democracy.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

978 

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Iraq Security Trade unions Assassination

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk