Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-17-Speech-4-305"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20100617.33.4-305"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
"Mr President, I join my colleagues in deploring the execution of 18 people in Libya on 30 May 2010 and in calling for the abolition of capital punishment. Libya uses the death penalty as a tool for curbing free expression and association in the country. Documentation of such cases is made difficult by the government. However, Human Rights Watch interviewed one prisoner who said that the authorities had commuted his death sentence at the last moment to life in prison. According to Mr al-Sharif, the People’s Court convicted him and two other men of organising a political group which opposed the principles of the al-Fateh revolution. The Supreme Court confirmed the death sentences but the Supreme Council for Judicial Authority spared the prisoners’ lives at the last moment in February 2002 after they had spent one hour blindfolded and bound to a wooden stake awaiting execution.
According to Mr al-Sharif, one of the three men committed suicide in December 2004. Reportedly, more than 200 people are currently on death row in Libya. I call on the Commission and the Council to raise these issues as a priority in their dialogue with Libya."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata | |
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples