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"Mr President, the Parliament regularly – and rightly – draws attention to places where people anywhere in the world lose their life because of their political beliefs or because of the defence of human rights.
Today we mourn the death of Boris Nemtsov. We express concern that he may have died partly because he was prepared to be a different voice within Russia on the current situation in Ukraine. We say that because that is what he said himself in July last year in relation to death threats that he was receiving then. If international visitors are blocked from attending even the funeral, it gives little confidence that the investigation can be open to external scrutiny and will meet international standards. It is also difficult to believe in the guilt of the alleged suspect who has been arrested and accused of being a terrorist when that person has a record as a loyal deputy commander of an elite counter—terrorism unit in Chechnya.
To those in Russia watching or reading this debate, we support forces of democratisation in your country, as in all countries. To those in government, that does not mean that we are against you. Indeed, in this resolution we reiterate that we wish to restore relations with you. But this has to be based on respect for democratic values and the rule of law, principles which are mutual obligations as fellow members of the Council of Europe and signatories of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. As my group has said before, in an atmosphere where nationalistic fervour is being generated, we have to be careful of the language we use in order not to add to that further, but to challenge it. But we will speak out. Boris Nemtsov may have been silenced by an assassin’s bullet but we will not be silenced."@en1
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