I also wish to thank you, however, for having contributed, on more than one occasion in the past, to calling for my freedom, which had been denied me when, during the twenty-six years I spent as a member of the opposition, I had at times to deal with an authority that had little respect for democracy and human rights and which interrogated me, arrested me or threw me into prison according to its whim.
Mais je voudrais aussi vous remercier pour avoir, dans le passé, contribué plus d’une fois à défendre ma liberté confisquée, lorsque durant mes vingt-six années passés dans l’opposition, je devais parfois affronter un pouvoir peu respectueux de la démocratie et des droits de l’homme, lequel m’interpellait, m’arrêtait ou me jetait en prison selon son bon vouloir.