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"Mr President, MPs must not be above the law, especially if they are implicated in crimes of violence. However, the arrest of six Greek MPs, including their party leader, at the behest of the government, only days after violent protests against their party by left-wing demonstrators following the horrific stabbing of a left-wing activist, must give us cause for concern
We must think of what Pastor Martin Niemöller might have said: ‘First they came for Golden Dawn, and I did not speak out because it was not my party.’ These were the first arrests of MPs in Greece since the fall of the infamous Colonels’ dictatorship in 1974. Whatever we might think of that party, no evidence has been cited of a connection between the alleged murderer and the MPs and it appears that the arrests took place to assuage the anger of violent demonstrators.
I am sure that, if the Hungarian Government had imprisoned opposition MPs instead of just tinkering with the constitution, we would have held non-stop debates. Democratic rights are not to be granted or withheld at the whim of government. We must always be sceptical when governments imprison oppositions."@en1
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