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

Amendment No. 10 | Doc. 13863 | 30 September 2015

Signatories:

Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI, Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Volodymyr ARIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Elena CENTEMERO, Italy, EPP/CD ; Mr Christopher CHOPE, United Kingdom, EC ; Mr Hans FRANKEN, Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Mr Giuseppe GALATI, Italy, EPP/CD ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, 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 7.1, after the words "Russian Federation", insert the following words:

", and certain cases of UNM leaders in Georgia, such as former prime minister Merabishvili".

Explanatory note

On 17 December 2013, former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili who was placed in pre-trial detention in May that year stated that he was illegally taken out from his detention cell and personally threatened by then Prosecutor-General Otar Partskhaladze to testify against President Mikheil Saakashvili.