Free Tibet has worked with MP Kate Hoey to table an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the UK Parliament calling on the Chinese authorities to rescind the death sentences.

To ensure the maximum number of MPs sign the EDM, it is vital that you contact your MP urging him/her to sign. MPs who are undecided as to whether to sign the EDM are more likely to do so if urged to by their constituents to whom they are accountable.

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MP URGENTLY, ASKING THEM TO SIGN EDM 1373 (full text of the EDM is below).

The two Tibetans condemned to death with no reprieve could be executed within days.

Previous campaigning on other death penalty cases in China has demonstrated that to secure any hope of a reversal we require public condemnation of the death penalties by governments and other public figures. If this EDM attracts widespread support among MPs it will send a powerful message to China that may encourage the Chinese authorities to reverse the death penalty sentences. Widespread condemnation of the death sentences by MPs will also build pressure on the British government to call on the Chinese authorities to reverse the death sentences.

To contact your MP:

Name of your MP

House of Commons

London SW1A 0AA

You can also email or fax your MP via the website www.writetothem.com

EDM 1373, put down by Kate Hoey MP on 28 April 2009

That this House opposes the use of the death penalty; condemns the recent imposition of the death penalty by the Lhasa Intermediate People's Court on Tibetans, Lobsang Gyaltsen and Loyak, having found them guilty of arson attacks in Lhasa in March 2008 which led to confirmed deaths; further condemns the recent imposition of the death penalty, each with a two year reprieve, by the same court on Tibetans Tenzin Phuntsok, Kangtsuk and on a 21-year-old Tibetan woman, Penkyi, also for arson attacks in Lhasa in March 2008, which led to confirmed deaths; is concerned that evidence against these individuals is unsound, with one of the convicted found guilty on the basis of a confession only months after the UN Committee Against Torture concluded that China regularly uses torture as a means of extracting confessions in criminal proceedings; is concerned that the trials of those named above were not conducted in accordance with judicial standards and that the death sentences passed are therefore unsafe; calls on the relevant Chinese authorities to rescind the aforementioned death sentences and to provide unfettered access to Tibet and all Tibetan-populated regions, including court proceedings, for journalists, consular staff based in Beijing and independent observers; and further calls on the British Government publicly to raise its concerns regarding the cases with the Chinese government.

Thus far 126 MPs have signed the EDM - a show of strong support from MPs. You can see which MPs have signed the EDM here.