Brussels, 19/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, speaking on Saturday 17 March, called on Belarus to introduce a moratorium on capital punishment “immediately”. High Representative Catherine Ashton the same day repeated the EU's opposition to the death penalty and also called on Belarus, the last European country to apply the death penalty, to put in place a moratorium on capital punishment as a first step towards a total ban.
Schulz said he was...