Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-04-13-Speech-4-174"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-04-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000413.7.4-174"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-04-13-Speech-4-1752
lpv:speaker	lp:François Zimeray2
lpv:spokenAs	vice-chair; Delegation for relations with Israel (1999-09-13--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Parti socialiste (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, when we learned a few months ago that thirteen Iranian Jews had been imprisoned a year earlier, we were concerned for their fate. At that time, in an effort to reassure us, the Iranian Government told us it was not a racist trial because many Moslems had also been arrested and indicted on the same charge along with the thirteen Jews. But the trial opening today only involves the Jews. They are being tried separately from the Moslems charged with them, which proves, if proof were needed, that this trial – which we are told is to be adjourned – is no genuine trial. You will remember, Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, and it has been mentioned, that some Iranian Jews were arrested for spying for Israel a few years ago. They were put on trial for it and hanged. Who are the accused? We should point out that they include a cobbler, a cemetery caretaker, a boy who is not even sixteen yet, and two old men. It is hard to understand how these people are endangering Iranian democracy. What are they supposed to have done? No one really knows! We do not have the right to know what they are supposed to have done. A letter to a family in Israel may have been enough to set this case in motion. In a previous resolution and in repeated letters supported by the President, we asked to be allowed to visit the prisoners. That was refused. We then asked to meet the families who are not sworn to secrecy, as far as I know. That was also refused. We asked – in a unanimous resolution – to be able to attend the trial. Up to now that has been refused. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we must recognise the immense risk run by these thirteen people and strenuously reiterate our requests to send observers to this trial and be given access to the evidence in the case. We must also make clear our intransigence on relations with Iran. I hope we are not going to wake up, some day soon, and find that these thirteen people have been executed because they were Jewish."@en1

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