Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-19-Speech-4-184"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2008-06-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Iran: execution of juvenile offenders2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20080619.22.4-184"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2008-06-19-Speech-4-1852
lpv:speaker	lp:Janusz Onyszkiewicz2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Unia Wolnosci/Partia Demokratyczna - demokraci.pl (2005-06-17--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; ECON (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2007-02-27--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, we are debating this matter today because we have been moved by the threat to carry out the death penalty on four young people under 18 years of age. This is not the first such decision from the Iranian justice system. Fortunately Iran is one of just a few countries that sentence teenagers to death and, what is worse, actually carry out these sentences. In addition, over the past three years, Iranian sentences have constituted over two thirds of all sentences of this type in the world. It is outrageous that Iran should breach international conventions, to which it is a signatory, and which categorically prohibit such measures, in such a blatant manner. This raises a question of a much more general nature: does the international community have any mechanisms and instruments to deal with such countries? In other words, is it possible for breaches of undertakings made voluntarily by a given country to result in some tangible and meaningful sanctions? This brings two things to mind. The first is the need to reconsider the much-used concept of rule of law. Convictions of teenagers for homosexual behaviour may be in accordance with the law in force in Iran, but we cannot, of course, agree with rule of law understood in this way. The second issue is that if we demand that others should comply with their undertakings as well as with reasonable laws that comply with basic freedoms, then we should respect these laws ourselves. In this context we cannot but remember our own dilatoriness, not to use any stronger words, when it comes to fulfilling the final court judgment and removing the Iranian mujahedin from the list of terrorist organisations."@en1

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