Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-04-19-Speech-4-446-000"
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"en.20120419.18.4-446-000"2
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"Madam President, both the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights provide that people have or should have freedom of expression. Proclamations about freedom of expression are a bit like the word democratic in the title of a state: it appears most prominently in the titles of states in which it is suppressed most obviously.
In several EU countries and signatories to the Convention, people can be and are jailed for heretical opinions on academic subjects and for political opinions that are disapproved of by the political class. Perhaps the worst example is in the country in which we are now: France. France only this year passed a law prescribing a description of the killing of Armenians in 1915, backed up by criminal penalties. Furthermore people have been prosecuted for the careless use of a word such as ‘debate’ to refer to a historical event. It really does not matter whether or not one dishonest document is judged by the standards of another dishonest document."@en1
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