2010 October

Valerie Vaz MP has sent a letter to the President of Iran, urging the President to intervene to ensure that Sakineh Ashtiani is released.  The letter is signed by 119 MPs from all the major parties in Parliament.  Sakineh Ashtiani, who has been in prison since 2005, faces the death penalty, by stoning, as she was convicted of ‘adultery’.  The man convicted of her husband’s murder has already been released by the Iranian authorities. 

Valerie Vaz MP for Walsall South is joining forces with Breast Cancer Campaign to raise awareness of its award winning fundraising event, wear it pink day, supported by Vanish.

Valerie Vaz MP has backed Usdaw, in their call for respect for retail workers, after they released preliminary survey results that show over one million shopworkers were assaulted, threatened or verbally abused in the last twelve months.

Valerie raised the issue of the continued detention of the Burmese Democracy Movement leader, Aung San Sui Kyi at Prime Minister’s Questions on 15th September 2010, urging the Government to make continued representations to set her free.  Daw Aung San Sui Kyi remains under the house arrest she was placed in by the Burmese Military Junta.