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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10498

19 November 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) ep/iran
Parliament calls for moratorium of death sentence

Brussels, 18/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - In a resolution adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday 17 November, the European Parliament (EP) once again urged Iran to institute a moratorium on executions and to reform its judicial process. MEPs expressed their concern at “the steadily deteriorating human rights situation in Iran”: the growing number of political prisoners, the sustained high number of executions, including of juveniles, widespread torture, unfair trials, exorbitant sums demanded...

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