Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-07-05-Speech-4-229-000"

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lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Andrzej Poczobut, who is a Polish-Belarusian journalist, and a major activist for the Polish minority in Belarus, was again imprisoned to await fabricated charges and a political trial. In Belarus, journalists continue to be imprisoned when they express and write their opinion of the country’s President, Alexander Lukashenko, or society generally. The written word, therefore, can be surprisingly powerful. Just writing one’s opinion can result in a prison sentence of many years for libelling the President. I believe, however, that the events in Belarus say more about the weakness of President Lukashenko’s ego than anything else. He does not even want democracy and a genuine civil society for the country, because he knows that it would mean an end to his tyranny. Andrzej Poczobut was later freed. This is excellent news. For this, we should be grateful both to the outspoken disapproval and criticism that the Internet makes possible as well as to the European Union and Parliament and their prompt response. The human rights organisation, Amnesty, had already called Poczobut a prisoner of conscience. In this connection, it is worth reminding everyone that at least 13 other prisoners of conscience are still awaiting their release in prison cells in Belarus. Imprisoning someone because of their opinion is a gross violation of fundamental, universal human rights, as well as a contravention of Section 34 of Belarus’s own constitution. The European External Action Service and the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Eastern Partnership in July should discuss the deterioration of human rights in Belarus as well as the Poczobut case."@en1
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