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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Archives: European Union Calls on U.S. to release Pollard

Text: European Union Calls on President of U.S. to release Jonathan Pollard

4.10.93 Official Journal of the European Communities
No C 268/147 Thursday, 16 September 1993 (j) B3-1251/93

Resolution on the life imprisonment sentence on Jonathan Pollard

The European Parliament,

A. noting that Jonathan Pollard, then of the US Navy, was convicted in 1985
Of passing classified information to Israel concerning the military
activities of Iraq, Syria and other Middle Eastern nations,

B. noting also that the information dealt with the chemical, biological and
nuclear arms build-up in these countries and that Pollard considered he had
a moral duty to warn Israel of the developing massive threat to its security
and to the lives of its people,

C. whereas Pollard has expressed remorse for his action,

D. whereas Pollard, who was not accused of treason, or of intending to harm
the US, pleaded guilty under a plea bargain, and was thus convicted and
sentenced, without a full trial, to life imprisonment, despite the
Government's promise not to seek such a penalty,

E. noting that the sentence imposed on Pollard was grossly disproportionate
to those imposed on others by US courts for supplying information to a
friendly power (normally from two to four years),

F. shocked that most of Pollard's eight years in prison should have been
spent in solitary confinement and underground,

G. astonished that Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger, described by one of
his Under¬Secretaries for Defence as having had 'an almost visceral dislike
of Israel', should have sent a message to the trial judge, one hour before
the sentencing hearing, asking for the stiffest possible sentence
commensurate with Pollard's 'treasonous' (sic) behaviour,

H. noting however that Mr Weinberger stated recently that he thought it was
time that Mr Pollard should be released; aware that Christian and Jewish
organizations throughout the world have pleaded for the harsh sentence of
life imprisonment to be commuted and that Judge Steve Williams wrote, in a
dissenting opinion to an appellate court finding, that 'the government's
conduct in this case resulted in a complete miscarriage of justice',

1. Urges the US Administration to commute Pollard's sentence to one of time
served and to release him immediately;

2. Calls on EPC to intercede with the US government with this end in view;

3. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the
Commission, EPC and the Government of the United States.

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