Sanctions of persons on the "Kara-Murza list"

Motion for a resolution | Doc. 15632 | 12 October 2022

Signatories:

Mr Eerik-Niiles KROSS, Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Knut ABRAHAM, Germany, EPP/CD ; Ms Thórhildur Sunna ÆVARSDÓTTIR, Iceland, SOC ; Ms Krista BAUMANE, Latvia, ALDE ; Ms Margreet De BOER, Netherlands, SOC ; Mr Marek BOROWSKI, Poland, EPP/CD ; Mr Bertrand BOUYX, France, ALDE ; Mr Jaroslav BŽOCH, Czech Republic, ALDE ; Ms Mireille CLAPOT, France, ALDE ; Mr Erkin GADIRLI, Azerbaijan, EC/DA ; Mr Joël GIRAUD, France, ALDE ; Lord Leslie GRIFFITHS, United Kingdom, SOC ; Mr Pablo HISPÁN, Spain, EPP/CD ; Ms Maria JUFEREVA-SKURATOVSKI, Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Claude KERN, France, ALDE ; Ms Yevheniia KRAVCHUK, Ukraine, ALDE ; Ms Stephanie KRISPER, Austria, ALDE ; Mr Jacques LE NAY, France, ALDE ; Mr Givi MIKANADZE, Georgia, SOC ; Mr Dmytro NATALUKHA, Ukraine, EC/DA ; Mr Aleksandar NIKOLOSKI, North Macedonia, EPP/CD ; Ms Yuliia OVCHYNNYKOVA, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr George PAPANDREOU, Greece, SOC ; Ms Maud PETIT, France, ALDE ; Mr Urmas REITELMANN, Estonia, EC/DA ; Mr Indrek SAAR, Estonia, SOC ; Mr Frank SCHWABE, Germany, SOC ; Ms Michaela ŠEBELOVÁ, Czech Republic, EPP/CD ; Mr Krzysztof ŚMISZEK, Poland, SOC ; Mr Davor Ivo STIER, Croatia, EPP/CD ; Ms Ingvild Wetrhus THORSVIK, Norway, ALDE ; Ms Oleksandra USTINOVA, Ukraine, ALDE ; Mr Frédéric VALLETOUX, France, ALDE ; Mr Sergiy VLASENKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Tamara VONTA, Slovenia, ALDE ; Ms Yelyzaveta YASKO, Ukraine, EPP/CD

This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only those who have signed it.

On 10 October 2022, the Parliamentary Assembly together with other donors awarded the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize to the Russian opposition politician, historian and writer Vladimir Kara-Murza.

Vladimir Kara-Murza was unlawfully detained and arrested by the authorities of the Russian Federation in April 2022. Since then he has been charged by a Russian court for spreading “false” information about the Russian military.

In July, new charges of "cooperating with an "undesirable" foreign NGO" were introduced, in which he faced up to six years in prison. In October, Kara-Murza was presented with new charges of "treason" in which he faces up to 20 years in prison.

The Václav Havel Prize was awarded to Vladimir Kara-Murza for the same activities for which the Russian authorities are repressing him.

The Assembly should prepare a report on facts about Kara-Murza’s illegal arrest, establish "a Kara-Murza list" of law-enforcement, prosecution and judicial officials of the Russian Federation involved in this crime and pass a resolution establishing a sanction regime against the persons on the list.