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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9788

22 November 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/nigeria
Parliament calls on Nigeria to abolish death penalty

Strasbourg, 21/11/2008 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption of a joint resolution on the human rights situation in Nigeria, the European Parliament has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria and the state governments to abolish the death penalty and, pending abolition, declare an immediate moratorium on all executions and commute all death sentences to terms of imprisonment. Noting that more than 720 men and 11 women are under sentence of death in Nigeria's prisons (40 of whom were aged...

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