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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9775

5 November 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/saudi arabia

04/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - The French Presidency of the EU Council, concerned by the large number of executions in Saudi Arabia, condemns the decapitation of a person condemned to death in Riyadh last Friday, 31 October. The Presidency urges all countries still applying the death penalty to stop all executions and to implement a moratorium in order to abolish capital punishment in accordance with the resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 18 December 2007....

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