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EU Parliament Pres. Speaks Against Death Penalty
EU Parliament Pres. Speaks Against Death Penalty
Today, (10 October) is World and European Day against the Death Penalty. Parliament's President Hans-Gert Pöttering will open the Plenary session today by reaffirming the European Parliament's opposition to executions throughout the world.
The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian Doctor accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV/AIDS, condemned to death and held for more than eight years in a Libyan prison will be present in the Chamber today.
The European Parliament repeatedly called for a fair trial and steadfastly opposed their death sentence.
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