Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-05-15-Speech-1-058"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:One-minute speeches on matters of political importance2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060515.14.1-058"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-05-15-Speech-1-0592
lpv:speaker	lp:Diana Wallis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I should like to ask those in this House to imagine themselves as an 18-year old on holiday in another country. You take a taxi, it turns into a nightmare. There are no witnesses, but the taxi driver ends up dead and you go straight to the first police station. You say he pulled a gun on you and what happened was self-defence on your part. That leads to a legal process lasting 18 years. You spend these 18 years in prison, away from your family, enduring a legal process that goes back and forth, condemning you to death, then finding you innocent, then starting again until every appeal is exhausted and you are finally condemned to death a second time. Eighteen years – half your life – in prison, with some of that time on death row, is punishment enough. That is the terrible story of my constituent, Mirza Tahir Hussain, condemned to death early next month. Mr President, if there is anything this Parliament can do, with its long history of opposition to the death penalty, I implore you to do so by writing to the President of Pakistan appealing for clemency."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; IMCO (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; PETI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; JURI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life Assurance Society (2006-01-19--2007-06-19)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2007-02-26)3 chair; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway and to the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-21--2007-09-04)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (2004-09-22--2007-09-04)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Diana Wallis (ALDE ). –"1

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