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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2011-05-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Azerbaijan (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110512.30.4-319-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-05-12-Speech-4-320-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulrike Lunacek2
lpv:spokenAs	member; SEDE (2009-07-16--2011-09-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2012-02-12)3 unknown; Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2009-08-28--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2013-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, a few days ago, we celebrated the grand opening of Euronest at the European Parliament in Brussels. Azerbaijan is a founding member of that assembly and as such, has committed itself to democracy, human rights, the rule of law and freedom of assembly and the media. This is also a fundamental element of the negotiations on an association agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan that have been taking place since July 2010. In light of this, it is really quite staggering how the Azerbaijani Government has behaved towards peacefully demonstrating people over the last two months. Here we have young people – who organised themselves via social networks like Facebook – arrested and sentenced to up to two and a half years imprisonment because they peacefully demonstrated under the slogan ‘drug abuse’. Others are threatened with a similar fate. At least 30 people, who likewise protested peacefully, have been sentenced to five to eight days of imprisonment without being able to contact their legal representatives in a cloak and dagger operation that excludes the public. Ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, that is unacceptable! In a joint resolution of the five largest groups in Parliament, we are calling for all these people to be released immediately and for the rule of law, freedom of expression and of the media to actually be ensured so that, as President Aliyev assured us years ago – in 2005 – ‘No journalist is persecuted in Azerbaijan’. He must finally keep these promises. I really hope that, by the time of the inter-parliamentary assembly scheduled for June, we will succeed in having all these people released, including newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev, and that the government and the governing parties finally keep to their promises. Otherwise, there must be consequences."@en1
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