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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7905

17 February 2001
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/pakistan
EP calls for release of seven journalists

Strasbourg, 16/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - During its emergency debates, the European Parliament called for the release of seven Pakistani journalists who risk the death penalty, and urged Pakistan to abolish the death sentence. The EP recalls that the journalists of Frontier Post, English-language newspaper, were arrested (for having published a letter from a reader) under the Pakistani law on blasphemy that provides for the death sentence, and emphasises that this law lends itself to...

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