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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8274

10 August 2002
(eu) ep/japan

09/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - Olivier Dupuis, MEP (Lista Bonino) asked the European Commission on 7 August if it had been informed of the "serious risks" of Mori Katsuhisa being executed in the very near future. The Japanese citizen was sentenced to death after being charged with planting a bomb at the Hokkaido prefecture in 1976. The MEP pointed out that, "usually more than one execution takes place at the same time in Japan. He was also afraid that, "other executions could take place in...