Strasbourg, 16/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament, during its emergency debates, adopted a resolution in which it condemns the whipping in Nigeria of a young girl, who last January received one hundred lashes in a court from the state of Zamafra, for having had sexual relations outside wedlock. The EP recalls that such a cruel and degrading treatment infringes the international conventions on human rights to which Nigeria is a signatory and invites the EU to improve the...