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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10029
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china

China's death penalty and abuses of minority rights slammed by MEPs

Strasbourg, 27/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a joint resolution tabled by the EPP, S&D, ALDE and Greens/EFA groups adopted in plenary on Thursday 26 November, the European Parliament repeats its call for China to introduce an immediate and unconditional moratorium on the death penalty. Recognising that the Chinese supreme court was given the power in January 2007 to change sentences for people condemned to death and describing it as a positive development, the EP regrets that it has not led...

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