Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-09-Speech-4-228"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Paweł Robert Kowal2
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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Mrs Schaake is right that there are very many people in Syria who want that country to change. I myself, when I was in Syria, saw those people and heard what they say. In speaking of this case, I think we need to go back to Tuesday’s debate on the state of the Union, when the leader of one of the political groups said that in important matters we must not be a kind of fax machine which spits out statements about world events. We have to get over that barrier and do more than just talk – and we talk a lot in Parliament – but we would like the talk to translate into greater effectiveness in our work. I am disturbed by the situation of the well-known human rights defender Haythan Al-Maleh, who has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for defending human rights and openly expressing his opinions. He has frequently suffered repression at the hands of the authorities, and has been imprisoned, accused and persecuted. Despite this, he has never ceased his activities and continues consistently to expose the illegal activity of the authorities. He is not alone in this. Many Syrians are saying they want their country to change. One of the European Parliament’s most important objectives is to be involved in the defence of human rights. This is one of those situations in which we must not be a fax machine, printing out statements. Haythan Al-Maleh is a prisoner of conscience, and is being held only because he exercised his right to express his opinion. We must not stand quietly by, because those who have elected us precisely so that we will freely express our opinions expect us to call for the same rights for others. If, today, we did not speak up for Al-Maleh, what sense would there be in our being elected, what authority would we have as MEPs, how would we be able to look our voters in the face in a few years’ time? I would like to stress that when we appeal to equality, justice, law and order and to everything about which we never stop talking in the united Europe, when we talk about friendship and about peaceful cooperation, we must not hide from such problems. These problems require great commitment from EU diplomacy, and they require the development of forms of pressure which would allow the Syrians to enjoy the kind of freedom of speech which they want and the kind which we enjoy. Let us share freedom of speech, and let us appeal to the EU institutions to be particularly effective in such matters, because the reputation of the European Union depends on it."@en1
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