Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-01-19-Speech-2-860-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2016-01-19"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Presumption of innocence and right to be present at trial in criminal proceedings (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20160119.34.2-860-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2016-01-19-Speech-2-861-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Gerard Batten2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, this report considers adopting some of the principles enshrined for centuries in English common law, for example the presumption of innocence, the burden of proof being on the prosecution, the right to silence and not incriminate oneself, and the right to be present at one’s own trial. How ironic it is, then, that the British Parliament has already abandoned those principles by adopting the EU’s own legal instruments. Take the presumption of innocence enshrined in common law for at least eight centuries: under a European arrest warrant, a citizen can be surrendered and imprisoned in a foreign country without a scrap of evidence being presented against them in an English court. This in itself is to abandon the principle of the presumption of innocence. The first duty of English Members of Parliament is to protect the freedoms and liberties of their own people; instead, ours have shamefully betrayed us."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; LIBE (2014-07-01--2017-01-18)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 162(8))"1 "Gerard Batten,"1 "on behalf of the EFDD Group"1
lpv:videoURI	<go to Events_and_structure europarl>2

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