HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN AND SANCTIONS AGAINST IRANIAN OFFICIALS

Early day motion 576, tabled 21 July 2010 by Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative). Signed by 32 members.

That this House supports the imposition and enforcement through the United Nations of an international travel ban and personal financial sanctions on the 15 leading Iranian officials named in the Men of violence report published by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and held responsible in that report for carrying out the brutal repression against peaceful protestors and civil society activists detailed on the website of the Iran Human Rights Group; considers that those repressive measures were in direct contravention of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and further supports the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, which backs Iranian human rights activists and defenders of the civil, political, social and economic rights Iran is obliged to uphold as a subscriber to the international framework of human rights treaties and standards.

Signatures by party: Labour 13, Conservative 10, Liberal Democrat 8, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.