Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-23-Speech-4-047"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Michael Gahler2
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lpv:translated text	". Mr President, it is fortuitous that we are holding this debate in the same part-session as the deliberations regarding the forthcoming EU-China summit. The issue of laogai camps has repercussions for both trade policy and human rights policy. I would like to focus on the human rights aspects here. Prisoners in China’s laogai prisons are forced into slave labour under the cynical motto ‘Reform through labour’. This huge network of enforced labour camps violates fundamental human rights. Prison conditions are appalling and are unacceptable to China’s European partners. They flagrantly flout universal human rights, which the People’s Republic of China undertook to observe no later than 12 years ago when it ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The European Parliament has already condemned the laogai system several times in the past. However, there is something that we must note: laogai prisons bear the names of commercial enterprises just like normal businesses, seeking to conceal the true nature of their products, which are produced by enforced labour. The US has placed a legal ban on the import of prison-produced goods and has kept its market closed to these so-called ‘businesses’. We have not yet introduced such a ban. Commissioner, you have stated that it is difficult to determine where products originate. We know the names of these businesses, which are in fact prisons. The US already has specific experience in relation to how these products can be kept off the market. The question is whether you are prepared to take notice of these company lists and to enter into specific discussions with the US on how something can be achieved in this way? Will the European Union now insist that China should move swiftly to permit the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture to visit the prisons of his choice, particularly in Xinjiang and Tibet?"@en1
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