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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11550

13 May 2016
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) gambia
Parliament calls for sanctions over human rights breaches

Brussels, 12/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - Underlining its “deepest concern” over the rapidly worsening security and human rights situation in The Gambia, the European Parliament said in Thursday 12 that the European Union and its member states should consider freezing all non-humanitarian assistance to the government of The Gambia and imposing “targeted sanctions on officials responsible for serious human rights abuses”.

In a resolution that was adopted by a comfortable majority, MEPs...

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