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This is a single
speech (house debate) resource
from the openparliament.ca API. If you’re new here, you might want to look at the documentation. If API and JSON are gibberish to you, you’re better off at our main site.
{
"time": "2004-10-15 11:10:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Ms. France Bonsant (Compton\u2014Stanstead, BQ)",
"fr": ""
},
"content": {
"en": "<p>Mr. Speaker, bombs and other weapons are being unjustly used against millions of women, men and children in the world, and now we learn that a court in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi has sentenced a woman accused of adultery to be stoned to death.</p>\n<p>Hajara Ibrahim is the fifth person to be thus sentenced in that state. Hon. members will recall the case of Amina Lawal, who received a death sentence in another northern state, Bakauri, and was acquitted after international protests.</p>\n<p>It is hard to understand the reasoning behind such cruelty and such attacks on the most basic of human rights.</p>\n<p>I call upon parliamentarians throughout the world. Let us unite our voices in a chorus of tolerance, friendship among peoples, and overriding humanity. Let us send the message to Hajara Ibrahim that her struggle for life and freedom is our struggle as well.</p>",
"fr": ""
},
"url": "/debates/2004/10/15/france-bonsant-1/",
"politician_url": "/politicians/france-bonsant/",
"politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1469/",
"procedural": false,
"source_id": "",
"h1": {
"en": "Statements By Members",
"fr": ""
},
"h2": {
"en": "Human Rights",
"fr": ""
},
"document_url": "/debates/2004/10/15/",
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}