Actions Taken by the Committee

29/10/1993 Meeting with Mr Hans Göran Franck MP (Chairperson of the Swedish parliamentary human rights group) in Sweden
 
3/11/1993 Seminar and Press Conference in Sweden and meeting with Mrs Berit Löfstedt MP (social democrat)
 
6/10-3/11/1993 Seminars on the hostages in Stockholm, Göteborg, Trollhättan and Linköping in Sweden
 
6/12/1993 Meeting with the British Foreign Office Iraqi Desk, London
 
8/12/1993 Meeting with Lord Hylton
 
10/12/1993 Radio interview with Voice of Iraq in London
 
13/12/1993 Meeting with various Iraqi groups
 
20/12/1993 Meeting with two conservative councillors on Strathclyde Regional Council
 
1994Meeting with Sir Edward Heath MP (The Ex-British Primeminister) at his office in the british parliment, with the ex-hostage Mr. Ali Hussain Abbas and the our committee secretary Mrs. Helen Allan
 
21-26/1/1994 Several interviews of Committee members in British Press, TV and radio 
 
2/2/1994 Meeting of Executives members of the Committee (Lord Hylton and Mr Ian Hunter) with Mr Zuhair Ibrahim, Acting Iraqi Ambassador in London
 
14/2/1994 Meeting with the Director of the British Red Cross, International Welfare Department in Glasgow
 
18/4/1994 Public meeting in London: 'Where are our hostages?' with representatives of the hostages' families and chaired by Lord Hylton
 
9/5/1994 Meeting in London with the reresentative of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva and ex-hostage Mr. Ali Hussain Abbas
 
10/5/1994 Meeting in London with the Iraqi Section of Amnesty International
 
21/6/1994 Seminar on the hostages to the Amnesty Group in Glasgow
 
Jan-Nov 1994 Collecting and processing detailed information about hostages from relatives living in Europe and the Middle East
 
Jan-Nov 1994 Several meetings with mediators
 
Jan-Nov 1994 Translation of publicity material into Arabic, Swedish and French
 
1/9/1994 Meeting with four ex-hostages in Sweden
 
2/5/1995 Early Day Motion 1073 Hostages in Iraq introduced into the UK House of Commons by George Galloway MP
 
16/3/1995 First AGM of the Committee in London
 
1995 Correspondence with Amnesty International
 
July 1995 Correspondence with General Federation of Trade Unions in Iraq
 
24/10/1995 Day of Action at the House of Commons in London and Meeting at Westminster Central Hall, London
 
Early Day Motion 1496 Iraqis and Others Detained Without Trial in Iraq introduced into the UK House of Commons by Emmas Nicholson MP
 
  Early Day Motion 317 Hostages in Iraq introduced into the UK House of Commons by Jim Wallace MP
 
1995-2002 Correspondence with Max van der Stoel, Special Rapportuer on the Situation of Human Rights in Iraq
 
1993-1998 Letter writing campaign to Embassies in the UK
 
1993-1998 Letter writing to relatives of hostages to obtain information and to give support
 
1993-2002 Correspondence with the British and International Red Cross
 
1993-2003 Correspondence with UK Prime Ministers John Major and Tony Blair and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
 
1993-2003 Correspondence and meetings with UK Members of Parliament and Members of the House
 
1993-2003 Correspondence and meetings with Members of European Parliament
 
1999-2003 Correspondence and meetings with the Scottish Executive and Members of the Scottish Parliament
 
1993-2003 Correspondence and meetings with the Scottish Trades Union Congress, the UK Trades Union Congress and leaders of several trade unions.