DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Early day motion 926, tabled 21 February 2007 by Rudi Vis (Labour). Signed by 50 members.

That this House believes that further deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo should be suspended with immediate effect based on evidence that failed asylum seekers risk being subjected to serious mistreatment and imprisonment on return and that this amounts to a grave violation of their Article 3 human rights as provided for in the Geneva Convention; and that, in particular, the mass removal of Democratic Republic of Congo asylum seekers on 26th February 2007 on a specially chartered XL Airways flight should not be allowed to proceed.

Signatures by party: Labour 33, Liberal Democrat 13, Conservative 1, Independent Labour 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.