TREATMENT OF ZIMBABWE CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS

Early day motion 1609, tabled 19 May 2008 by Baroness Hoey (Labour). Signed by 92 members.

That this House deplores the detention of the President, Lovemore Matombo and the Secretary General, Wellington Chibebe, of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions; welcomes the decision of Amnesty International to regard both men as prisoners of conscience; is gravely concerned by the relentless assault on political and civic expression evidence by shamelessly brutal attacks on trades union officials; and calls upon all who claim to uphold human rights and democracy to condemn unequivocally the use by the ZanuPF regime of imprisonment, abduction and violence to suppress the peacefully expressed democratic will of the people of Zimbabwe.

Signatures by party: Labour 54, Liberal Democrat 17, Conservative 6, DUP 4, Plaid Cymru 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Independent 2, Scottish National Party 2, UKIP 1.