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"Mr President, with the few seconds I have, I am going to confine myself to commemorating a name and to launching an appeal. The name is Dr Abdul-Reza Soudbakhsh, a physician and professor at Tehran University, who visited and examined the victims of Kahrizak prison, known for holding opponents of the Iranian regime, and who did not cover up his conclusions that those victims had died as a result of acts of torture.
However, Dr Abdul-Reza Soudbakhsh himself has since been murdered.
The appeal is as follows: the fact that we know that there are European companies collaborating with the Iranian regime, whether by blocking opposition television broadcasts or by providing censorship software, is an offence to the memory of courageous people like this Iranian man.
We must tell the Commission, which is here in this debate, that companies which collaborate in the violation of human rights should not receive a penny in European subsidies.
It is possible to do this using existing legal bases. However, we can do more. I do not understand how the Commission can fine companies for breaching competition laws, for example, but it cannot fine European companies who sully Europe’s name by collaborating in the breach of human rights.
I would like to hear a response from the Commission to this appeal, and I want all of us to unite to ensure that these companies do not receive a penny out of the pockets of European citizens."@en1
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