Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-13-Speech-2-282"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-12-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights and freedom of the press in Tunisia and evaluation of the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20051213.57.2-282"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-12-13-Speech-2-2832
lpv:speaker	lp:Hélène Flautre2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Les Verts-Europe-Ecologie (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; G/EFA (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member; Conference of Committee Chairs (2004-09-01--2007-01-15)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 chair; DROI (2004-09-01--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I am pleased that we are holding this debate today. It comes in the wake of the numerous violations of human rights that accompanied the World Summit on the Information Society which, as we know, took place in Tunis. Let me recall them briefly: human-rights activists and journalists were harassed, action was taken to prevent the convening of a citizens’ summit, telephone connections were cut off, e-mails and Internet access were blocked, the speech delivered by the President of Switzerland was censored, other international figures were deported, among them our Sakharov Prize winner Robert Ménard, and so on. Let us remember that these violations are not isolated, one-off occurrences but routine everyday practice in Tunisia. The human-rights situation in Tunisia is deteriorating – as we noted, by the way, in our resolution of 29 September. These latest incidents, I believe, are a direct challenge to the policy of the European Union on democracy and human rights in that country, which was the first signatory of an association agreement containing the famous Article 2, and we must rise to that challenge. The Council has certainly made representations on several occasions, but it is truly regrettable that no public move has been made to denounce the violations of human rights that have taken place and to lend essential support to the incredible mobilisation of civil society, parts of which, incidentally, are represented today in the European Parliament. We consider it important that the Commission and the Council undertake, firstly, to convene a meeting of the Association Council as soon as possible in order to discuss the human-rights situation and the practical consequences of the observed violations and, secondly, to initiate discussions, in the true spirit of the action plan, on a timetable of reforms in the areas already referred to, a precise timetable with deadlines for measurable results: result number one is the reform of the judicial system; in this context, we must demand the release of the lawyer Mohammed Abou and of all political prisoners in Tunisia as well as an end to the harassment of the Tunisian Magistrates’ Association; result number two is the removal of restrictions on the activities of civil society; number three is cooperation with UN mechanisms. These are the minimum requirements if we are to meet the challenge confronting us."@en1

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