Early day motion · EDM 1510 · 1 Mar 2011

ARREST OF OPPOSITION LEADERS IN IRAN

Tabled by Robert Halfon (Conservative) 23 signatures

The motion

That this House condemns the reported arrest of Iranian opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, who were already held under house arrest; notes that they were apparently moved to the Heshmatiyeh prison in Tehran after both leaders' websites had carried calls for protests in Tehran, and openly resisted the repression and human rights abuses of the Iranian regime; and calls on the British Government urgently to increase the economic sanctions against Iran in line with current sanctions against Libya.

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