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dcterms:Date	"2012-07-04"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to ask the President-in-Office about his statement that those responsible for crimes must be held accountable. I would ask you, President-in-Office, why you and your fellow foreign ministers dropped the reference to support for a reference to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity committed in Syria from the draft text of the conclusions of the last Foreign Affairs Council, and why you withdrew from tabling the text on Syria at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week? Is it because in reality you do not support such a reference despite the repeated calls by the UN High Commissioner for this to take place? Like many colleagues in this debate we have read the Human Rights Watch report this week detailing the torture inflicted by the Syrian authorities, including beating by baton and wire, electrocution, burning with battery acid, sexual assault, the pulling of fingernails and mock execution. Elias, one detainee, described how he had been hung by his wrists for eight days and denied sleep. He said: ‘My brain stopped working. I was imagining things. ... It was excruciating. I screamed that I needed to go to a hospital, but the guards just laughed at me.’ Why do you not support a reference to the International Criminal Court and today will you commit the European Union … ("@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (S&D ). -"1 "The President cut off the speaker)"1
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