Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-09-10-Speech-1-116-000"
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"Mr President, illegal detention is not only wrong in itself, but its illegality, together with a lack of official records, facilitates the ill-treatment of the detained.
I hope that it should not be necessary to say that torture can never be justified morally. However, if people are not persuaded by moral arguments, we should point out that torture is ineffective because it produces unreliable information. Furthermore, the propaganda value to terrorists of proven cases of ill-treatment is immense.
Political leaders in many European countries have to account for their actions, and some seem to have a case to answer. However they, like the detained suspects of terrorism, have the right to the presumption of innocence in any judicial process.
I am convinced that full judicial inquiries should be conducted in the relevant European countries. However, I would oppose the legislation that the resolution calls for to give the European Parliament a general power to place Member States’ security services under scrutiny. That is the role of the parliaments and judiciaries of Member States."@en1
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