Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-021"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-03"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:EU-Cuba relations2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030903.1.3-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-03-Speech-3-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Concepció Ferrer2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (1999-10-12--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Mr President–in–Office of the Council, Commissioner, half a year after the operation carried out by the Castro Government against internal dissidents – the most significant since the triumph of the Castro revolution – more than 70 internal dissidents – including promoters of the Varela Project, trade unionists and independent journalists – imprisoned for the sole crime of dissenting from official policy and freely expressing their opinion, remain in prison in conditions which, furthermore, clearly violate the most fundamental principles of humanitarian law and which genuinely threaten the lives of some of them. I am thinking in particular of Oscar Espinosa Chepe who is today hospitalised in the prison ward of the Finlay Military Hospital in Havana, seriously ill as the result of chronic cirrhosis of the liver – from which he suffered at the time of his arrest – and which has been aggravated by his weakness and the bad prison conditions and hygiene to which he has been subjected. In view of this situation and in view of the facts it is essential that we reiterate our unanimous condemnation of the Castro regime and demand the immediate release of all political prisoners, and it is also essential that we express our solidarity with the Cuban people, who most directly suffer the consequences of the lack of freedoms and demonstrate to them through action – rather than words – that we wish to help them to take the road of peaceful transition towards democracy they have set out upon. As the Uruguayan poet Eduardo Galeano said, Cuba hurts. It does indeed hurt to see political, economic and social freedoms continuing to be violated. And because we in this Parliament are hurt by it – and today we are receiving representatives of those countries which had been deprived of freedom under the Soviet totalitarian regime – we wish to tell them that they should not lose hope. We wish to tell them that no dictator can suffocate the right to rights in relation to aspirations for freedom and democracy."@en1

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