Early Day Motions in the UK House of Commons
EDM 1073: Hostages in Iraq, George Galloway MP, 2/5/95
That this House congratulates the work of the Glasgow based Committee for the Release of Hostages and Detainees in Iraq and especially their intention to hold a day of action in June to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the incarceration of hundreds of Iraqi Kurdish citizens and the expulsion from their homeland of many hundreds more; asks the Government to put the issue of those hostages and detainees at the top of its agenda during any contacts with the Iraqi government; demands an answer from the Iraqi government about the fate of these hostages; and further demands their immediate release thus giving them their freedom and bringing about an end to the suffering of their deported families many of them now taking asylum in the United Kingdom.
EDM 1496: Iraqis and Others Detained Without Trial in, Emma Nicholson MP, 24/10/95
That this House calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to make strenuous representations to President Saddam Hussein and the Government of Iraq to provide information on and release forthwith 890 Iraqis detained without trial so that they can join their families already deported to Iran; and that representations also be made to the United Nations and international human rights organisations to bring pressure to bear for their release, and for the knowledge and release of all other prisoners of war or conscience, dead or alive, held inside Iraq.
EMD 317: Hostages in Iraq, Jim Wallace MP
That this House calls upon Her Majesty’s Government to intercede and make direct representations to the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein to provide information on and to release forthwith 909 Iraqi hostages detained without trial, some since April 1980, 604 Kuwaitis also held without trial and all other prisoners of war or conscience held inside Iraq; believes that all such hostages, detainees and prisoners of war should be given the freedom to join their families whether in Iraq, Kuwait or elsewhere; and further requests Her Majesty’s Government to propose to the United Nation Security Council a specific Resolution giving UN Human Rights Monitors free access and powers to visit and inspect all prisons and concentration camps as recommended by the first International Conference on Human Rights and Kuwaiti prisoners of war, held in London on 12th and 13th March 1996.