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"en.20051114.12.1-034"2
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"Mr President, there are states or quasi-states defined as ‘non-democracies’ or dictatorships with regimes unauthorised by the people’s free will. Therefore, they are illegally imposed by usurpers of fundamental human rights. One could call these regimes ‘illegal’ when considered in the light of values shared by free nations in democracies.
Nevertheless, we agree that a law passed by a dictator is still called a law. A court which is subordinated to the will of usurpers is still called a court. Despite being written by a bloody hand, a penal or procedural code is still called a code. Even dictatorships are already referred to and treated as democracies of a special sort, sometimes being referred to as ‘real democracies’, although they are different from the formal ones.
We know of the consequences of the great European tyrannies of the last century. Nowadays, tyrannies also exist in Cuba, Iran and Belarus. In the latter country, a neighbour of Russia, the moves made by an increasingly authoritarian state against its citizens are still defined as being made in a court of law."@en1
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