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"en.20051117.22.4-195"2
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Mr President, the Philippine moratorium on the death penalty of March 2000 has for the past three years has gone completely the other way. The current government aims to carry out more and more death sentences, even on minors who, by law, cannot be sentenced to death or executed. In its pursuit to eliminate as many people as possible, the government puts victims into isolation, tortures them and excludes them from legal assistance.
The fact that the government of the Philippines is unable to put an end to crime and protests does not justify the use of barbaric means of this kind. Among the many people of Philippine nationality who have fallen victim to them, there is Francisco Larrañaga, who also has Spanish nationality. The fact that he has been charged with very serious criminal offences does not justify a mock trial that disregards his alibi, nor does it justify a death sentence and the exclusion, so far, of the possibility of this conviction being quashed.
His dual nationality does, however, help to bring this abuse to the attention of the media in Europe. Even if the life of a European citizen is not at risk, we must make every effort to remove the death penalty, wherever it may apply throughout the world."@en1
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