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"Mr President, Commissioner, this mother, Amina Lawal, has been sentenced to death, to die by stoning, brutally, for having had sexual relations after being divorced, something very common which is done by millions of people, men and women, on all five continents, regardless of their beliefs, Muslims, Catholics, protestants and any other.
'Why Amina and not me?', the whole world asks in the face of this Islamic hypocrisy. Mr President, Commissioner, the current application of the
in the states of the north of Nigeria did not exist before. It is simply a fundamentalist interpretation. The harm it would do to the life of Amina is irreversible. Later, power relationships will change, there will be other tribunals, Islamic ones or American ones, which establish different criteria, but Amina’s right to life will be irreversibly violated.
Paragraph 11 reiterates that the European Parliament wants to see consideration of the victims of fundamentalist persecutions being given the right to asylum, particularly in cases of sentences to death by stoning. Mr President, Commissioner, we must not forget that these sentences to death by stoning are also being carried out in Iran. And a top official close to Khatami even had the nerve to praise them.
Commissioner, we want to strengthen links with Iran, but are these stonings compatible with our coherence on foreign and security policy and the defence of human rights?
Commissioner, I would ask you also to take account of the stonings in Iran."@en1
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