Abuse of pretrial detention in States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights

Amendment No. 12 | Doc. 13863 | 30 September 2015

Signatories:

Mr Christopher CHOPE, United Kingdom, EC ; Mr Volodymyr ARIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Mr Hans FRANKEN, Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Mr Giuseppe GALATI, Italy, EPP/CD ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Mr Andres HERKEL, Estonia, EPP/CD ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Aleksandar NIKOLOSKI, ''The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'', EPP/CD ; Ms Olena SOTNYK, Ukraine, ALDE ; Ms Chiora TAKTAKISHVILI, Georgia, ALDE ; Ms Kristýna ZELIENKOVÁ, Czech Republic, ALDE ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

Origin

2015 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 11.5, replace the words "in Georgia", with the following words:

"in cases of UNM leaders Mr Ugulava and Mr Akhalaia in Georgia. In the case of Mr Ugulava, the Constitutional Court of Georgia ruled his 15 month pre-trial detention term was anti-constitutional and illegal".

Explanatory note

Mr Ugulava, UMN leader, was re-arrested 24 hours after his release after one of the cases against him was accelerated, despite the constitutional court ruling that his extended pre-trial detention was illegal. The chairman of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee called this a "violation of the EU-Georgia Association Agreement".