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Proceeding contribution from Jim Sheridan (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 18 December 2008. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Iraq.


Iraq

Does the Prime Minister agree that one of the measures of the progress of democracy in Iraq is the fact that its own citizens, and, indeed, its journalists, can protest against their own leaders and world leaders—as happened with President Bush—without the fear of death, while under the previous Administration of Saddam Hussein anyone who made a protest suffered torture and a violent death, as did their families?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
485 c1244-5 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Deployment Iraq Peacekeeping operations
Link
View this Proceeding contribution on www.publications.parliament.uk