iraqi employees campaign: October 9 meeting

Sunny Hundal offers a comprehensive roundup of the progress of the Iraqi Employees campaign, confirming the following about the Parliamentary meeting on October 9:

The cross-party event is being supported by Amnesty International, the Refugee Council and Human Rights Watch. The main speaker will be a British soldier [Mark Brockway] who hired a number of Iraqis and is in contact with many of them now, including many who have fled Iraq ahead of death threats. A recent report in the Times detailed how death squads were particularly targeting these employees and their families. The situation is urgent and yet our government continues to drag its feet.

The cross-party event is being supported by Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone and Conservative MP Ed Vaizey, who will also be speaking.

He adds:

The problem is that Labour MPs have so far been surprisingly reluctant to support this campaign.

Right now I suppose they’re all at Brownfest. But it might be good to have another letter waiting for them when they get back inviting them to the meeting. Procedure, as ever, over here.

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