Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-11-26-Speech-4-123-000"
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"en.20151126.7.4-123-000"2
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"Madam President, secular writers, bloggers and publishers have been hacked to death. ‘There is no freedom of expression in Bangladesh’ – so wrote Sakharov Prize winner, Taslima Nasrin, when she heard about today’s debate. Here she can have a voice, but in Bangladesh today such a voice risks being silenced for good. Unable to speak out any more are slain bloggers Avijit Roy, Washiqur Rahman, Niloy Neel and Ananta Bijoy Das. Bangladesh ranks 12th from bottom on the Committee for the Protection of Journalists 2015 impunity index, spotlighting countries where journalists are murdered and their killers go unpunished.
I am proud that this resolution calls for independent investigations into such killings but never to resort to the death penalty in response. It is not just the killings that prevent free speech; the government has criminalised criticism. Section 57 of the ICT Act criminalises criticising Islamic religious views or reporting on human rights violations. I echo Amnesty International’s calls to repeal Section 57 so that Bangladesh complies with its international human rights obligations. Last week, the Bangladesh Government banned Facebook and What’s App ‘indefinitely’, citing security reasons. George Orwell said, ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear’. The Bangladesh Government and the European External Action Service, in their dealings with this government, must remember this."@en1
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