Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-10-26-Speech-5-078-000"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-10-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20121026.5.5-078-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-10-26-Speech-5-079-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Franz Obermayr2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; EMPL (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2012-03-29--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; NA (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the United Arab Emirates represents oil, sheikhs, sun and luxury, but it also represents less pleasant and less modern things, such as torture, stoning, beheadings, public floggings and the oppression of women. Then there are the terrible working conditions in the booming construction industry, affecting guest workers in particular. Every year, a large number of guest workers in the region die as a result of inadequate safety standards. Particularly shocking is a case that I would like to mention today. With all the whitewashing, I was unaware that a compatriot of mine, an Austrian doctor named Eugen Adelsmayr, was sentenced a few days ago to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates. He was fortunate; it could have been the death sentence. He was accused of having caused the death of a patient. What is astonishing about the case is that three expert statements exonerating Dr Adelsmayr were disregarded. It is also interesting that, in the course of being translated in Dubai, the statement by the authorities suddenly shrank from 25 to 6 pages and that the all-important 19 pages exonerating Dr Adelsmayr suddenly disappeared from the file. This tallies with the human rights reports indicating that nepotism is apparently alive and well in this country and that evidence is blindly disregarded. We therefore need not just clear words, but clear actions, too: let us urge our citizens, in view of the lack of legal certainty, not to visit these countries and not to book a trip to the United Arab Emirates again until the situation has changed."@en1
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