Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-01-20-Speech-4-134"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-01-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000120.9.4-134"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-01-20-Speech-4-1352
lpv:speaker	lp:Sir Graham Watson2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, the most worrying thing about the situation in China is that, despite all the dialogue we have had with China, the human rights situation is, by many accounts, deteriorating. There is a continued crackdown on dissidents, on labour rights activists, on religious groups, and in recent months we have seen the detention without trial of many leaders of the Falun Gong movement. There are real problems in China with torture and forced labour camps. But, perhaps most seriously, more than 60 different offences are punishable by the death penalty, many of them non-violent offences. It is judicial executions that are perhaps the greatest cause of concern. In 1998, Amnesty International recorded 2 700 death sentences and 1 769 confirmed executions. This is a very serious problem. We need to continue dialogue with China; we need to seek, through dialogue and through trade, to open up Chinese society to western ideas and try to convince them of the error of their ways."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 chair; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Japan (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-07-20--2002-01-15)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Watson (ELDR )."1

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