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"en.20060116.13.1-034"2
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"Mr President, I agree with Mrs Flautre’s condemnation of the scandalous fact that Guantanamo Bay has now been in existence for four years.
Several dozen legal residents of the EU are still incarcerated there, including some of my constituents: Bisha al-Rawi, Jamil al-Banna and Omar Deghayes. The EU needs to exert united and cohesive pressure on the United States, which it has never done before.
Citizens of future EU Member States are also incarcerated there. I refer specifically to five Bosnian citizens and one legal resident who were abducted by United States agents in January 2002, in defiance of Bosnian court orders, and held incommunicado for two years. I call on the Bosnian Prime Minister, Adnan Terzic, to press for their release and for the EU to encourage and support him.
Also in the context of the so-called war on terror, it is shameful that the British Government withheld from the British Parliament for six weeks a letter from Louise Arbour, the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, expressing deep concern at some of the proposals in the current anti-terrorism legislation going through the UK national parliament, despite a request that the letter be brought to the attention of the House of Lords. Everyone must heed what the United Nations says."@en1
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