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MUMIA ABU-JAMAL AND INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE US

Early day motion 828, tabled 19 January 2018 by Grahame Morris (Labour). Signed by 7 members.

That this House believes that journalist and black political rights activist Mumia Abu-Jamal has been wrongly imprisoned and should be released from his decades-long incarceration in Pennsylvania; further believes that there is widespread evidence of police, prosecutorial and judicial misconduct and that Abu-Jamal's incarceration has led to severe life-threatening illness; notes that the 1982 trial judge gloated in racist terms of his intent to sentence Mr Abu-Jamal to death; and believes that Mr Abu-Jamal is the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice.

Signatures by party: Scottish National Party 4, Labour 2, Independent 1.