Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-10-07-Speech-4-039"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-10-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991007.4.4-039"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-10-07-Speech-4-0402
lpv:speaker	lp:Chantal Cauquil2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Regardless of its formulation, I shall be voting for this resolution which demands the abolition of that barbarous punishment, the death penalty. I would ask the House to take an urgent stand against the execution of the black American journalist, Moumia Abou Jamal. Moumia Abou Jamal fought against racism and for the dignity of Blacks by denouncing in his articles the violence and corruption of the Philadelphia police and institutional racism in general. After being arrested by that same police force, which accused him, without proof, of the murder of one of his own people, he was sentenced to death following a rigged trial, as a result of falsified evidence and bribed witnesses. He has now spent seventeen years languishing on death row, seventeen years claiming innocence and fighting for a review of his case. Moumia Abou Jamal may be executed at any moment, since his appeal in the United States Supreme Court has just been rejected. The United States is a signatory to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Racial Discrimination, as well as the Convention against Torture, which is applicable in Moumia’s case since the racial factor weighed heavily in his trial and he has spent seventeen years on death row which constitutes, according to those Treaties, an unjust form of punishment which is equivalent to torture. This is why I call on the House to vote not only for the resolution against the death penalty, but also for the amendment which adds that the European Parliament is appealing to the Governor of Pennsylvania to refrain from signing any new execution order against Moumia Abou Jamal and is renewing its demand for a review of his case."@en1

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