Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev and the European Court of Human Rights
Written declaration
No.
537
| Doc. 13114
| 21 May 2013
- Signatories:
- Mr Luca VOLONTÈ,
Italy, EPP/CD ; Mr Joris BACKER,
Netherlands, ALDE ; Mr David BAKRADZE,
Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Josep Anton BARDINA PAU,
Andorra, ALDE ; Mr Levan BERDZENISHVILI,
Georgia, ALDE ; Mr Fernand BODEN,
Luxembourg, EPP/CD ; Ms Tinatin BOKUCHAVA,
Georgia, EPP/CD ; Ms Anne BRASSEUR,
Luxembourg, ALDE ; Mr André BUGNON,
Switzerland, ALDE ; Ms Svetislava BULAJIĆ,
Serbia, ALDE ; Mr Irakli CHIKOVANI,
Georgia, ALDE ; Ms Lolita ČIGĀNE,
Latvia, EPP/CD ; Mr David DAVIES,
United Kingdom, EDG ; Mr Roel DESEYN,
Belgium, EPP/CD ; Ms Fouzia EL BAYED,
Morocco ; Mr Terence FLANAGAN,
Ireland, EPP/CD ; Mr Bernard FOURNIER,
France, EPP/CD ; Mr Hans FRANKEN,
Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Ms Corina FUSU,
Republic of Moldova, ALDE ; Sir Roger GALE,
United Kingdom, EDG ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI,
Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Ms Sylvi GRAHAM,
Norway, EPP/CD ; Mr Andres HERKEL,
Estonia, EPP/CD ; Mr Roman JAKIČ,
Slovenia ; Mr Ferenc KALMÁR,
Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI,
Georgia, EPP/CD ; Ms Ulrika KARLSSON,
Sweden, EPP/CD ; Ms Tinatin KHIDASHELI,
Georgia, ALDE ; Ms Magnhild Meltveit KLEPPA,
Norway, ALDE ; Mr Edward LEIGH,
United Kingdom, EDG ; Ms Inese LĪBIŅA-EGNERE,
Latvia, EPP/CD ; Ms Kerstin LUNDGREN,
Sweden, ALDE ; Ms Meritxell MATEU PI,
Andorra, ALDE ; Mr Robert NEILL,
United Kingdom, EDG ; Baroness Emma NICHOLSON,
United Kingdom, ALDE ; Ms Mirosława NYKIEL,
Poland, EPP/CD ; Mr Pieter OMTZIGT,
Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Ms Marietta de POURBAIX-LUNDIN,
Sweden, EPP/CD ; Mr Maximilian REIMANN,
Switzerland, ALDE ; Ms Marina SCHUSTER,
Germany, ALDE ; Mr Ionuţ-Marian STROE,
Romania, ALDE ; Ms Tímea SZABÓ,
Hungary, NR ; Ms Chiora TAKTAKISHVILI,
Georgia, ALDE ; Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS,
Lithuania, EPP/CD ; Mr Piotr WACH,
Poland, EPP/CD ; Dame Angela WATKINSON,
United Kingdom, EDG ; Mr Jordi XUCLÀ,
Spain, ALDE
- Thesaurus
This written declaration commits only those who have signed it.
Considering that:
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, Amnesty International
prisoners of conscience, have been imprisoned in Russia since 2003
and convicted in two trials widely criticised as politically motivated
and legally flawed;
- their case was the basis of Resolution 1418 (2005);
- Resolution 1685 (2009), on allegations of politically motivated
abuses of criminal justice, cited their cases;
- Resolution 1896 (2012) stated that 'the system [in Russia]
pressures judges to show loyalty to state bodies or certain officials
and to take into account political considerations...the most notorious
examples are the cases involving Yukos and Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky;'
- of the four applications each has lodged to the ECtHR only
one has come to judgment, which was favourable to the applicants;
- their applications alleging violations during the first
trial, tabled in 2006 and 2005, respectively, remain unresolved
despite Mr Lebedev having been granted priority status.
The undersigned, members of the Parliamentary Assembly:
- express their hope and confidence that the ECtHR will deliver
judgment without further delay on the cases 11082/06, 13772/05 and
all other outstanding applications lodged by Mr Khodorkovsky and
Mr Lebedev.
;