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10-11 July 1985 - Luxembourg
Speech at the European Conference on Conscientious Objection organised
by the Radical Party in Luxembourg.
July 1985 - Strasbourg
Delivery of a petition with 27,000 signatures for a European Community
directive supporting conscientious objection to Lady Elles, Vice President
of the European Parliament.
Brussels, 9 october 1985.
Arrest for desertion. A plain-clothes policeman cuts
the chain linking Olivier Dupuis to the Secretary of the Radical Party
Giovanni Negri and the Radical MEP Enzo Tortora.
Osijek, January 1992
In Osijek, the besieged city in West Slavonia (Croatia), wearing the Croatian
uniform.
Rome, April 1994.
Hunger strike to call on the V Commission of the United Nations to allocate
funds from its ordinary budget for the full operation of the ad hoc Tribunal
on the former Yugoslavia. (Photo: Tano D'Amico)
Strasbourg, 14 December
1995.
The first Seminar on Tibet organised by the Transnational Radical Party.
Brussels, 10 March 1996.
Meeting on the occasion of the first European demonstration for the freedom
of Tibet. (Photo: Lorenzo Ceva)
Strasbourg, October 1996.
With the Dalai Lama and Marco Pannella at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Rome, October 1997.
Arrest during an act of civil disobedience involving the distribution
of hashish to members of the public. The placard shows the Radical Party
phone number for people wishing to join the Party. (Photo: Tommaso Del
Franco)
27 June 1998 - Tbilisi
(Georgia)
Meeting with the President of the Georgian Parliament, Zurab Zhvania,
during the visit of the South-East Europe interparliamentary delegation.
June 1998 - Baku (Azerbaijan)
Meeting with Arif Radim-Zade, First Vice President of the Azerbaijan
Parliament, during the visit of the South-East Europe interparliamentary
delegation.
1998
Olivier Dupuis with the Radical MEP Gianfranco Dell'Alba in Rambouillet
before handing a report drawn up by a group of juridical experts for "No
peace without justice" and the TRP on the determination of penal and political
responsibility for the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed
in 1998 in Kosovo to Wolfang Petrich, special representative of the European
Union.
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Olivier Dupuis: Biographical notes
Olivier Dupuis was born in 1958 in Ath (Belgium). He graduated
in Political and Social Science at the University of Louvain. He first
joined the Radical Party in 1981, and took an active part in the campaign
against famine, undertaking nonviolent actions which led to his arrest
and detention on numerous occasions in Brussels. In 1982 he went on a
hunger strike lasting five weeks in order to obtain the effective implementation
of the so-called "Survival Law", which had been passed by majority vote
by the Belgian parliament. In the same year, he was arrested in Prague
for demonstrating and handing out pamphlets with other Radical activists
in support of freedom and democracy. After being arrested with two other
Radical activists in Dubrovnik, he was kept in prison for three days before
being expelled from the country and banned from returning for three years.
"the green reed"
between his teeth
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"Olivier Dupuis is one of those men who
swim like salmon against the stream of received ideas.
On all the fronts of the rights of man, he is at the
forefront. For years now he has tirelessly kept "the
green reed" between his teeth. I dream with him
of a democracy in which we would all be free to decide
on the destination of the taxes we pay to the state,
whether they should go to the army or to research. Each
citizen would be free to choose his field and would
work for what he believes in deep down inside."
Julos Beaucarne, 8 October
1985 Author and singer-songwriter
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Declaring that neither military defense nor the civilian
alternative are capable of facing the real threats to peace and security
represented by the lack of democracy in Eastern Europe and the non-respect
of the right to life in the South of the world, he was arrested in October
1985 and charged with desertion. Sentenced to two years in prison, he
was released in August 1986 after spending eleven months in the prisons
of Saint-Gilles and Louvain.
From 1988 he lived in Budapest, where he helped to organise the TRP Congress
in April 1989. From 1989 to 1993 he coordinated the activities of the
Radical Party in the countries of Central Europe. In December 1991, as
the European Community obstinately refused to recognise the republics
of the former Yugoslavia, he went with Marco Pannella and other Radicals
to the trenches of besieged city of Osijek, and wore the Croatian uniform.
In Sofia, in July 1993, he was elected President of the General Council
of the Radical Party.
In March 1994 he held a day of dialogue (which lasted twenty-eight hours)
with the members of the V Commission of the United Nations to obtain an
agreement on the funding of the ad hoc Tribunal on crimes committed in
the former Yugoslavia.
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April 1995, he was elected Secretary of the TRP by the 37th Congress in
Rome.
In April 1996, following the resignation of Marco Pannella, he became
a member of the European Parliament. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs
Commission, a substitute member of the Public Liberty Commission, and
a member of the Delegations with South East Europe and with Transcaucasia.
In the summer of 1998 he launched the Transnational Radical Party campaign
in favour of the indictment of President Milosevic for crimes against
humanity by the International Criminal Court on crimes committed in the
former Yugoslavia. In spring 1999 he handed the Deputy Attorney of the
Court, Graham Blewitt, a petition with over 100,000 signatures from people
all over the world asking for the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic.
He was re-elected to the European Parliament in June 1999
in the North-West Italy constituency (Milan-Turin-Genoa). He is a member
of the Constitutional Commission, a substitute member of the Foreign Affairs
Commission and a member of the Delegations with South Asia and with Transcaucasia.
In June 2001 he demonstrated together with the Radical Martin Schulthes
in favour of democracy and the freedom of religion in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh
City), outside the Pagoda of Tinh Minh, where the Venerable Thich Quang
Do, the number two in the Unified Buddhist Church (not recognised by the
Hanoi authorities), was detained. After being arrested, they were questioned
for several hours before being put on the first plane to Bangkok.
On the occasion of the second anniversary of the "26 October
1999 Movement" and as a sign of concrete solidarity with the five student
leaders arrested and not heard of since, Olivier Dupuis, Silvja Manzi,
Massimo Lensi, Bruno Mellano and Nikolaj Khramov demonstrated on 26 October
2001 in Vientiane for "freedom, democracy and reconciliation in Laos".
Arrested by the Lao authorities, they were questioned at length and then
detained for two weeks in Phontong prison. Sentenced to two and a half
years in prison after a brief, farcical trial, they were immediately expelled
from the country.
ol_dupuis@yahoo.com
OLIVIER
DUPUIS AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Plenary
speeches at the European Parliament
29 July 2001 - San José (California)
Olivier Dupuis at the ceremony organised by the Vietnamese community of
California to celebrate the act of civil disobedience in Vietnam.
5/04/2002: 38th Congress of the Transnational Radical Party, Olivier Dupuis
with Enver Can, Chairman of the National East Turkestan Congress
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Rome, July 1998.
Speech at a demonstration in favour of the institution of the International
Criminal Court, held on the Capitoline during the Diplomatic Conference
of Plenipotentiaries in Rome.
Strasbourg, January 1998.
Press conference held by a delegation from "Mafia Incorporated", during
which the MEPs Oliver Dups (alias Olivier Dupuis) and Frank Dell'Albone
(alias Gianfranco Dell'Alba), disguised for the occasion as mobsters,
explain why people should vote against the Ancona Report, against a report
that is far too anti-prohibitionist.
1 February 1999 - The
Hague (Holland)
Olivier Dupuis hands a petition to Graham Blewitt, Deputy Public Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court on the former Yugoslavia, with over
100,000 signatures of citizens and well-known figures for the immediate
indictment for war crimes and crimes against humanity of the Yugoslavian
President Milosevic.
8 March 1998 - Brussels
"A flower for the women of Kabul" - demonstration.
2 May 1999 - Ancona (Italy)
March organised by the Transnational Radical Party for freedom in
Kosovo, democracy in Serbia and the indictment of Milosevic.
5 June 2000 - Rome
Radical demonstration outside the home of the Prime Minister (Palazzo
Chigi) on the occasion of the visit to Italy of the Russian President
Putin, in favour of the immediate commencement of negotiations with the
Chechen President Aslam Maskhadov.
Brussels, December 2000.
Photo with the Tibetan flag in the background, taken at the international
Seminar on Tibet organised by the Radical members of the European Parliament
and the Transnational Radical Party.
Brussels, December
2000.
Next to Wei Jingsheng during the international Seminar on Tibet organised
by the Radical members of the European Parliament and the Transnational
Radical Party. (Photo: Lorenzo Ceva)
29 July 2001 - San
José (California)
Olivier Dupuis with Vo Van Ai and Penelope Faulkner, President and
Vice President of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Vietnam,
at the ceremony organised by the Vietnamese community of California
to celebrate the act of civil disobedience in Vietnam.
10 November 2001 -
Rome
Olivier Dupuis with Nikolai Khramov, Bruno Mellano, Silvja Manzi
and Massimo Lensi the day after their expulsion from Laos.
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