THE CASE OF ALI AARRASS

Early day motion 2552, tabled 19 December 2011 by Jeremy Corbyn (Labour). Signed by 18 members.

That this House recognises the deep concern amongst human rights lawyers and experts ontorture across Europe about the 15-year sentence handed down by the Rabat court sitting at Sal to the dual Belgian-Moroccan national Ali Aarrass after a trial that appears to have ignored all due process, relied solely on torture evidence, and which took place a year after the Spanish authorities ignored an instruction by the UN Human Rights Committee not to extradite him to Morocco while the Committee was considering his case; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to follow the lead of the Bar Human Rights Committee, Freedom From Torture and a number of distinguished Queen's Counsel to make urgent representations to the Moroccan government to secure justice for Mr Aarrass and his family.

Signatures by party: Labour 10, Liberal Democrat 5, Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.