Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2009-11-23-Speech-1-026"
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"Mr President, on Thursday, I was in Tunis for the trial of the poet and writer Taoufik Ben Brik, indicted in Tunisia on obscure common-law charges that fool no one. Since the ‘elections’ in Tunisia, held on 25 October, those who defend human rights have been subjected to an outburst of violence and harassment on such a scale as I have never before witnessed, familiar though I am with that country.
On 25 October, President Ben Ali no doubt realised the full extent of the Tunisian people’s disaffection with their leader; and the embassies and the European Commission, which unfortunately does not have the political visa to attend this kind of trial, have displayed a general lack of interest in the issue that is unfolding.
I think we must be very clear today. We are guilty of failing in our legal duty to rescue. What is stopping the embassies and the European Commission from rigorously questioning Mr Ben Ali – in the name of our binding agreements and mutual commitments with Tunisia – about his actions, which are entirely contrary to those commitments?"@en1
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