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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10396
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) ep/guantanamo

Opposition to death penalty under any circumstances

Strasbourg, 10/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament has reiterated its long-standing opposition to the death penalty in all cases and under all circumstances. In particular, it has called on the American authorities not to impose the death penalty on Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. Subjected to torture and held in secret by the CIA in Poland in 2002 and 2003, this Saudi prisoner was transferred to the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, where he is alleged to have been tortured....

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