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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10798

5 March 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 26 / 34
EXTERNAL ACTION / (ae) maldives
EU calls for leniency after teenager sentenced to lashing

Brussels, 04/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - Appalled by the sentencing of a young 15-year-old girl in the Maldives to one hundred lashes and eight months' house arrest after she admitted having sex before marriage, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has called for the prosecution and sentence to be retracted, Ashton's spokesperson announced on 1 March. “Corporal punishment, including flogging, amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment,...

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