Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Ann Clwyd (Labour), on Thursday, 4 March 2010, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 33 members in total.

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WELFARE OF HAYTHAM AL-MALEH IN SYRIA

That this House is extremely concerned by reports that Amnesty prisoner-of-conscience Haytham Al-Maleh has become seriously ill since being denied appropriate medication for his chronic medical conditions; believes that Mr Al-Maleh, a prominent lawyer, human rights activist and former President of the Syrian Human Rights Society, has again been imprisoned because of his defence of human rights in Syria; recalls his defence of Mr Mamoun Al-Homsi and Mr Riad Seef, both former Syrian members of parliament, whose cases were taken up by the Inter-Parliamentary Union's Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians; and asks the international community to urge the Syrian government to release Mr Al-Maleh or at least to allow him to receive the medical treatment he requires as a matter of urgency and to significantly improve his conditions of detention.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1023 

Session

2009-10

Other sponsors

Tom Brake

Diane Abbott

Phyllis Starkey

Kelvin Hopkins

Jeremy Corbyn

Subjects

Human rights Prisons Middle East

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk