Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-06-15-Speech-4-206"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-06-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Syria: Human rights violations2
dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060615.30.4-206"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-06-15-Speech-4-2072
lpv:speaker	lp:Józef Pinior2
lpv:spokenAs	member; DEVE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2004-09-16--2007-03-13)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 substitute; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Socjaldemokracja Polska (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the European Parliament has raised the question many times of infringements of human rights and basic political freedoms in Syria. The Syrian authorities are notorious for detaining civil society activists and defence lawyers in political cases, as well as participants of foreign conferences on human rights after their return home. These arrests contravene Article 38 of the Syrian Constitution, which guarantees each citizen ‘the right to freely and openly express opinions in speech and writing and by all other means of expression’. The Syrian State of Emergency Law, which has been in force since 8 March 1963, also does not justify arresting and holding people in custody without trial for having freely expressed their opinion. In May this year, the Syrian security service Amn al-Dawla detained 12 signatories of a petition calling on the Syrian authorities to improve relations between Syria and Lebanon by respecting the sovereignty of each of these countries. In the first half of May, the signatures of about 300 intellectuals and civil society activists in Syria and Lebanon were collected for the petition. On 14 May, the well-known journalist and universally respected representative of the domestic opposition Michel Kilo was detained. On 16 May, two further human rights activists, Nidal Darwish and Mahmud Mer’i, were arrested; more people were detained the following day, including the well-known defence lawyer Anwar al-Bunni. Ten days before he was detained, the Syrian Bar Association had suspended Anwar al-Bunni’s membership of this professional body. Anwar al-Bunni was supposed to become the director of the Centre for Human Rights, financed by the European Union, which was meant to start operating in Damascus. The majority of those detained between 14 and 17 May are being held in the central prison in Adra, near Damascus. The European Parliament calls on the Syrian Government and Parliament for the immediate release of these people, and for the political system in Syria to respect basic political and civil rights."@en1

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