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"Mr President, first of all, I welcome the fact that we are adopting – and not before time, I might add – a specific resolution on Bahrain.
The wave of protests of the Arab Spring has been brewing in Bahrain since February. Since then, there has been rampant repression there, as in Syria and Yemen. Dozens of peaceful demonstrators have been murdered, arrested and tortured. The repression has also struck doctors and medical staff, whose only crime has been to dare assist the victims of this savage repression. Human rights defenders, lawyers and trade unionists are constantly being harassed. We are witnessing show trials, with death sentences being pronounced in just seven minutes. The least one can say is that the international community has been slow to react and that condemnations of the repression have been weak at best. It has to be said that its important neighbour, Saudi Arabia, is paying close attention. Worse, it has intervened militarily to assist the current regime. Thousands of Saudi soldiers are still on Bahraini soil.
It is difficult not to notice how timid the resolution we are debating today is on this subject, with not the slightest condemnation of this military presence. There have been expressions of ‘deep concern’. That is weak.
Both the Commission and the Council have remained silent. Does Baroness Ashton think she can construct her human rights strategy by applying double standards, while telling us that she wants to ‘start from the facts’? It is time to react and to act on behalf of the Bahraini people."@en1
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