Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-05-22-Speech-4-202"
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"Madam President, Commissioner, here in the European Parliament we keep coming back to the problem of Belarus, a country that, in fact, lies in the centre of Europe, looked at geographically, bordering the European Union. It is an exceptional country by European standards in that it does not have a liberal democracy or rule of law and it has censorship. Today’s debate takes place on the anniversary of the Prague Spring in 1968, an anniversary of the moment when, in Europe, people finally said ‘enough’ to censorship and press controls.
Today I wanted to devote my speech to just this issue in Belarus. We had a very strange hacker attack on independent internet media: on Charter 97, Radio Liberty and the Belarus Partisan. What was strange was the hacker attack began the day before the opposition demonstration that was to take place on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
The internet media in Belarus are really the only independent media as the majority of the media are completely under the control of the Belarus regime. Charter 97 are visited by about 9 000 surfers daily and, in Belarus, over 3 000 000 families are connected to the internet, over 30% of the total population. This shows the dynamism and vitality of society in Belarus.
Commissioner, the European Union must seriously consider what measures to take in order to help the ordinary people in Belarus."@en1
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