Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-06-16-Speech-1-056"
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"en.20080616.18.1-056"2
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"Mr President, Chee Soon Juan was released from Queenstown Prison in Singapore two days ago. He has been convicted and imprisoned several times in the last few years. Chee Soon Juan is not a criminal. His ‘crime’ is very simple: he is leader of the democratic opposition. He is constantly struggling for freedom and democracy in his country.
Since his last release, the state-controlled media in Singapore started to discredit him, to destroy his credibility, with baseless personal attacks and character assassination. We have a strong solidarity with Mr Chee Soon Juan and his fellows, who are struggling and fighting for democracy and human rights in Singapore.
We call on the Singaporean authorities to stop harassing the democratic opposition, to stop the violation of human rights and to start respecting the basic right of free expression. We hope very much that Singapore will go along with our strong wish to respect basic rights."@en1
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"István Szent-Iványi (ALDE ). –"1
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