DEATH PENALTY IN INDIA

Motion Text

That this House welcomes Amnesty International UK's section Report 2006, Standing Up for Human Rights, which calls upon India to send a strong signal of its support for human rights by abolishing the death penalty; calls for the release of Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar who, having been illegally extradited from Germany, is currently under sentence of death; and urges the UK Government to use whatever influence it can to urge the Indian government to abolish the death penalty and to free Professor Bhullar.