Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-09-09-Speech-4-224"

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dcterms:Date	"2010-09-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in Syria, in particular the case of Haythan Al - Maleh2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100909.16.4-224"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-09-09-Speech-4-2252
lpv:speaker	lp:Frédérique Ries2
lpv:spokenAs	member; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Mouvement Réformateur (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; FEMM (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; ALDE (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, one may wonder whether Syria is not in the end getting used to the criticism that we level at it virtually every year on the subject of human rights abuses in the country. Let us not give up hope of being understood, though, and let us carry on waiting for progress, more progress – I do understand that some progress is being made there – for all the Syrian citizens who aspire to more freedom, particularly freedom of expression. Our motion for a resolution today concerns Mr Haythan al-Maleh in particular, a tireless defender of human rights. This lawyer was sentenced to three years in prison at the end of a parody of a trial for having – and I quote – ‘spread fallacious and exaggerated information prejudicial to national feelings’. That is what it says. Our resolution therefore demands the immediate release of Mr Haythan al-Maleh for the reasons that I have just explained and also for what has already been mentioned – his old age and the very serious health problems that he has. More fundamentally, of course, we want to draw attention to human rights abuses in Syria: executions – we mention them in our resolution – arrests and restrictions on a whole series of freedoms, all that in the name of a state of emergency, which is temporary by definition, that has been going on and on there for more than 40 years. We call on the European Union to assert these demands, which have been restated by Baroness Ashton and are crucial, and above all to use them to exert pressure in talks and negotiations in connection with signing the association agreement. We are moving away from what was termed the ‘Prague Spring’ over 10 years ago, in 2000, when Bashar al-Assad had just come to power. Over a period of just a few months it offered a glimpse of a brighter future for Syrian civil society. It is now time, I think, for Syria to continue to implement all these necessary reforms if it wants to put across an image worthy of the major role that we hope and want to see it play in the region."@en1
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