Members of the European Parliament have debated on and passed several new human rights motions during a plenary session today, Thursday, October 5. MEPs passed all three human rights motions they debated this morning, which: condemn the "widespread discrimination and persecution" of albinos in Africa; condemn the sentencing of two Tatar leaders and a journalist in Crimea; calls on the EU to consider sanctions against "those undermining human rights" in the Maldives. MEPs also spoke against inhuman and degrading conditions in member state prisons, in particular Romania.