The definition of political prisoner

Sub-Amendment to Amendment No. 1 | Doc. 13011 | 03 October 2012

Signatories:

Mr Christoph STRÄSSER, Germany, SOC ; Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, SOC ; Mr Michael McNAMARA, Ireland, SOC ; Mr Jerzy MONTAG, Germany, SOC ; Mr René ROUQUET, France, SOC ; Mr Kimmo SASI, Finland, EPP/CD ; Ms Tineke STRIK, Netherlands, SOC

Origin

2012 - Fourth part-session

In the proposed amendment, in the first sentence, replace the words "were based on" with the following words:

"were inspired by, inter alia,"

Explanatory note

The text as it stands is factually wrong. In actual fact, only one of the Secretary General's Independent Experts who participated in formulating the criteria developed for the Council of Europe had previously worked with an expert who had acted as the UN Security Council's expert on the situation of political prisoners in Namibia.