Early day motion · EDM 576 · 21 Jul 2010

HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAN AND SANCTIONS AGAINST IRANIAN OFFICIALS

Tabled by Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Conservative) 34 signatures

The motion

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.

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