6 Amendments of Sabine LÖSING related to 2013/2147(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas KSA is a hereditary, feudal, absolute monarchy without an elected parliament; whereas it faces the challenge of royal succession; whereas KSA has a population of 28 million, including 9 million foreigners, mostly from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Egypt and Yemen, and 10 million aged under 18; whereas some reforms have been implemented in KSA since 2001, but are not institutionalised and can thus be easily reversed; whereas the country’'s record in the field of human rights remains dismalalarming, particularly with regard to discrimination against women, lack of democratic rights and the existence of corporal punishment and the death penalty, with fundamental gaps between its international obligation and their implementation;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the death penalty is still applied in KSA for a wide variety of crimes and at least 82 people were executed in 2011, including minors and foreigners; whereas public executions take place and those executed can be crucified and publicly displayed;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the European interest in a peaceful and orderly evolution and political reform procDeplores the EU policy of double standards demonstrated in the hypocritical and preferential treatment of KSA, motivated by the EU's economic and geostrategic interests in KSA, as a key factor for long-term peace, stability and development in the regionand its dependence on oil; condemns European complicity which allows and encourages the sale of arms to said government;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its call for the universal abolition of the death penalty and calls for an immediate moratorium on the carrying out of death sentences in KSA; regrets that KSA continues to apply the death penalty for a wide variety of crimes, including homosexuality, drug offences, apostasy, sorcery and witchcraft;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Deplores the fact that despite KSA's ratification in October 2004 of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), in practice Saudi women are still discriminated against in many ways, in their personal lives, in matters of employment, participation in public life, submission to men, widespread domestic violence, or by restrictions on their rights to free movement and on the freedom to choose their partner; condemns the criminalisation of women who are victims of rape and sexual exploitation, who are not protected as victims but rather condemned as prostitutes;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Reiterates its condemnation of KSA's military intervention to suppress the popular protests in Bahrain in 2011; in this regard, urges KSA to abstain from taking this kind of action and reiterates its call on KSA to contribute constructively and to mediate in the interests of peaceful reforms and national dialogue in Bahrain;