Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-12-15-Speech-4-290-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-12-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Azerbaijan, notably the case of Rafiq Tagi2
dcterms:Language	"pt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20111215.27.4-290-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-12-15-Speech-4-291-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Rui Tavares2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mercosur countries (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2011-09-15--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2011-06-24--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Independente (2011-06-30--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, on 10 November, Rafiq Tagi, an Azerbaijani writer and journalist, published an article entitled ‘Iran and the Inevitability of Globalisation’, in which he criticised President Ahmadinejad for discrediting Islam. In reaction to the publication of this article, a Iranian Grand Ayatollah, Fazel Lankarani, issued a fatwah calling for Mr Tagi to be killed. Nine days later, Mr Tagi was the victim of a knife attack which he did not survive, dying on 23 November. Mr Tagi was right: Islam is an age-old religion that is only discredited by views such as those of President Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Lankarani. The age-old Persian culture, which we all admire for its sophistication and advances, is tarnished by such people. The coexistence of Persian civilisation and Azerbaijani culture, which is also the product of thousands of years of neighbourhood and proximity, is severely disrupted by this type of attitude. Let us hope that its new non-permanent membership of the UN Security Council for the period 2012-2014 will lead Iran to take long-awaited measures, such as abolishing the death penalty and putting an end to the systematic and barbarous violations of human rights committed in that country against Iranian citizens, and now outside the country, against citizens of other nations. It is obvious that we should not simply wait and see. The EU cannot merely adopt this sort of resolution. We have spoken here before, during the last sitting, about the existence of European companies helping the Iranian authorities to carry out Internet censorship of the democratic opposition in Iran, or to distort its communications. We should penalise these European companies, as otherwise our words will lack the necessary credibility."@en1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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