[WCUSP] P/R MEPs STAND UP FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF 45 PALESTINIAN MPs IN ISRAELI JAIL

[yvonne simmons]

--- > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 17:32:31 +0200
> Subject: [womeninblack] P/R MEPs STAND UP FOR THE
> IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF 45
> 	PALESTINIAN MPs IN ISRAELI JAIL
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: MORGANTINI Luisa 
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> PRESS RELEASE
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> BY
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> LUISA MORGANTINI
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> (GUE/NGL)
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> Vice President of the European Parliament
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> MEPs STAND UP FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF 45
> PALESTINIAN MPs 
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> IN ISRAELI JAIL
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> Brussels, 6  June 2007
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> 45 Members of the European Parliament, from
> different political groups, have decided to express
> their solidarity towards the 45 Palestinian
> colleagues imprisoned by Israel, and called for
> their immediate and unconditional release.
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> All the 45 MEPs stood up symbolically in the
> plenary, right before the beginning of the debate
> with Mr. Solana on the situation on the Middle East,
> representing the 45 Members of the Palestinian
> Legislative Council detained in the Israeli jails in
> a clear violation of the international legality.
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> "Each of us, MEPs, is deeply concerned about the
> imprisonment of the President and of 1/3 of the
> Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council,
> democratically and legitimately elected by the
> Palestinian people", MEPs said in their declaration.
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> Through this initiative, MEPs want to strongly
> condemn these arrests by the Israeli Army, but also
> remind the anniversary of the beginning of the
> Israeli military occupation in the Palestinian
> territories, which is during 40 years exactly today.
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> "We are deeply worried not only for the plight of
> the 45 members of the Palestinian Legislative
> Council but also for the near 11000 Palestinian
> political prisoners currently imprisoned by the
> Israeli Army, without a true process and often
> brutally abducted by the Israeli soldiers. 
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> They have to be released and, at the same time, also
> the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit must be freed by
> the Palestinian group that kidnapped him in Gaza
> Strip, as a change of prisoners- affirms Luisa
> Morgantini, one of the 45 MEPs participating to this
> initiative.
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> "40 years of military occupation are enough: now
> it's urgent to implement a political solution of the
> conflict, based on "two People and two States" and 
> it's necessary that the Palestinian Legislative
> Council could continue its activity, instead of
> preventing its work because of the check points, the
> arrests, the summary killings kept on by the current
> Israeli policy of military occupation", concluded
> Luisa Morgantini.     
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> MEPs participating to the initiative:  
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> Adamou Adamos,  Andria Alfonso, Aubert Marie-Hélène,
> Auken Margarete, Beer Angelika,  Brepoels Frieda, 
> Bourzai Bernadette, Bowis John, Carnero Gonzàlez
> Carlos, Cohn-Bendit Daniel, Davies Chris, De Brún
> Bairbre, De Keyser Véronique, Demetriou Panayiotis,
> De Rossa Proinsias, Evans Jill, Flautre Hélène,
> Gottardi Donata, Guerreiro Pedro, Hammerstein Mintz
> David, Isler-Béguin Marie-Anne, Kasoulides Ioannis,
> Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou Rodi, Locatelli Pia Elda, Lucas
> Caroline, Madeira Jamila, Matsakis Marios,
> McMillan-Scott Edward, Menendez Del Valle Emilio,
> Meyer Pleite Willy, Morgantini Luisa, Napoletano
> Pasqualina, Patrie Béatrice, Portas Miguel,  Purvis
> John, Resetarits Karin, Romeva i Rueda Raül, Roure
> Martine, Saïfi Tokia, Savi Toomas, Sudre Margie,
> Svensson Eva-Britt, Toussas Georgios,
> Triantaphyllides Kyriacos, Wurtz Francis.
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> Further informations:  Luisa Morgantini 0039 348 39
> 21 465 Brussels office +32 2 28 45151
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