Human rights: Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Central African Republic and Thailand

Irn Bru wrote: MEPs passed four resolutions on Thursday: urging Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and calling for a moratorium on the death penalty; demanding measures to starve Boko Haram in Nigeria of its sources of illegal income; expressing fears of civil war in Central African Republic; and deploring human rights abuses in Thailand following the coup of May 2014.

Saudi Arabia: al-Nimr death sentence

MEPs strongly condemn the sentencing of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr to the death penalty and support the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty, as a step towards abolition. They express their concern at the reported rise in the number of death sentences in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2014 and the alarming rate at which court rulings have ordered the death penalty in 2015.

Parliament calls on the Saudi Arabian authorities, and in particular King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, to halt the execution of Ali Mohammed al-Nimr and grant a pardon or commute his sentence. It appeals to the European External Action Service and the member states to deploy all their diplomatic tools and make every effort to immediately stop the execution. MEPs note that Saudi Arabia has recently been appointed to chair a panel of independent experts on the UN Human Rights Council and urge the Saudi authorities to "ensure that standards of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms in their country are consistent with such an international role".

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20151002IPR95368/html/Human-rights-Saudi-Arabia-Nigeria-Central-African-Republic-and-Thailand

The non-binding resolution was adopted by a show of hands.

It will take more than a show of hands and non-binding resolutions to stop what is going on particulary in Saudi Arabia.