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"Mr President, last year, Parliament discussed an Association Agreement with Egypt. The Association Agreement needed renewing. At the time, we expressed our concern in a resolution about the persecution of 52 men on account of their homosexuality. Twenty-three of these men were put behind bars, although the Egyptian government eventually partly granted the European Union’s wishes by releasing twenty-two of them. My group, and I assume also the other groups in this House, are therefore shocked to hear that Egyptian law enforcement agencies are now once again bringing 50 of these men before the court for something in respect of which sentence has previously been passed on them. In doing so, Egypt is violating the rule of
no second conviction for the same offence. This is, in principle, what Egypt too claims to subscribe to. A letter which Amnesty International has received from the Egyptian government further states that:"@en1
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