Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-14-Speech-1-112"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-11-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:"Secret detention centres" in Europe2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051114.15.1-112"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-11-14-Speech-1-1132
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-11-14--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, it is not only dictatorships threatened with extinction that keep people detained in an unacceptable manner. Since the use of the Guantanamo Bay military base as a prison where non-Americans can be kept without trial and without support from a lawyer, we know that human rights are violated to that extent by NATO’s most powerful member state too. In Europe, we expect virtually everyone to reject such practices, even if this involves people whom we think are a threat to our lives in peace and democracy. If secret prisons are located in one of the current or future EU Member States, or in states that benefit from our neighbourhood policy, then that is a stain on the European claims of democratic rule of law and protection of human rights. It is therefore necessary that the Commission and Council make every effort to put an end to the possible existence of such prisons. Commissioner Frattini now reports that the Member States involved flatly deny their part of the responsibility. He then goes on to refer to the Council of Europe that is already taking care of this matter. If such prisons exist, it has always been the intention to keep their existence secret for ever. Their denial is the first instrument to protect this secrecy. This denial does not convince me or certainly those who have drawn your attention to this. The European Union must check out for itself whether there is an American network of secret prisons and whether some of them are located in Europe. I can endorse the procedural points mentioned by Mrs Buitenweg. Instead of simply denying their existence, we must get to the bottom of this matter."@en1

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