European Parliament
Carl Schlyter,
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group.
(SV)
Mr President, have not the Sudanese people suffered long enough? Firstly, they succeeded in surviving and fleeing from a war, and now they are persecuted in Egypt when they try peacefully to contact the UN. Egypt replaced many of its more senior officials and ministers at the end of last year, and now it is time for them to replace their police chiefs.
We can never accept a state of affairs in which countries with which we cooperate so much should allow police forces to attack civilians in that way. I hope that we can cooperate very well with the UNHCR in order to obtain clarity about everything that happened in this situation.
I wish finally to remind you that, for example, my own country has, with the help of the CIA, sent so-called terrorist suspects off to Egypt to be tortured. That is something that we ourselves must stop doing.

