Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor John McDonnell (Labour), on Thursday, 12 March 2015, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 25 members in total.

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DETENTION AND TREATMENT OF BOYS FROM HARES

That this House notes that 15 March 2015, Mothering Sunday in the UK, marks the second anniversary of the arrest of five 16-year-old Palestinian boys from the village of Hares; condemns their having been dragged out of their homes at 3am by Israeli soldiers with attack dogs, taken without explanation to an adult prison, denied lawyers, tortured physically and psychologically and each put in solitary confinement until they allegedly confessed to crimes they did not commit such as stone-throwing and attempted murder; further condemns this breach of Israeli law, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Article 76 of the 4th Geneva Convention; and calls on the Government to honour Ms Um Fadi, who spoke in the House at a public meeting in 2014, and the other mothers and families of the five boys who have campaigned tirelessly for their release by doing all it can to get the Israeli government to return the boys to their families without further delay.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

868 

Session

2014-15

Other sponsors

Peter Bottomley

Kelvin Hopkins

George Howarth

Mark Durkan

Mike Hancock

Subjects

Human rights Politics and government Middle East

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk