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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor George Howarth (Labour), on Monday, 6 June 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 49 members in total.

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 assassinated in Baghdad; and appeals for the widest possible support for this initiative not only from supporters of the British Labour movement but from anyone with an interest in nurturing Iraqi democracy.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

GLOBAL APPEAL TO HELP AVERT ASSASSINATION OF IRAQI UNION LEADER (258A1)
The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Harry Cohen (primary, Labour) and tabled on Wednesday, 8 June 2005. It has been signed by 3 members in total.
leave out `is' and insert `, other Iraqi factions and special forces sponsored by entities which are not Iraqi, are'.

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
258 
258A1 
Session
2005-06
Other sponsors
Michael Connarty
Bob Spink
Lynne Jones
David Lepper
Greg Pope
Subjects
Iraq Security Trade unions Assassination
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk