Declaration on repression against MP Zitto Kawbe of Tanzania

Geneva, 14th October 2019

Parliamentarians of the Global Interparliamentarian Network for a binding Treaty on Human Rights and transnational companies gathering in Geneva we are strongly denouncing that the Government of Tanzania did not allow MP Zitto Kawbe to leave the country and come to Geneva and work together with us in favour of a binding Treaty during the meeting of the working group. We call on the the Tanzanian Government to re-establish the rights of Mr. Kawbe to travel safely where he wants and where he needs to realize his parliamentarian work.  

Ms Manon Aubry, Member of the European Parliament, co-president of the GUE/NGL group

Ms. Marie Arena, Member of the European Parliament, chair of the Sub-committee for Human Rights of the European Parliament,

Mr. Miguel Urban, Member of the European Parliament

Mr. Charles Santiago, Member of the Parliament of Malaysia

Ms. Fernanda Melchionna e Silva, Member of the Parliament of Brazil

Mr. Helmut Scholz, Member of the European Parliament, 

Mrs. Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament, 

Mr. Michel Brandt, Member of the Bundestag