29/06/2012 Session
While underlining the link between free movement of persons and freedom of expression, the Assembly today said that some Council of Europe member States have misused their legal right to determine entry into their territory in order to deny entry “to some persons merely as punishment for a political or ideological position they peacefully hold”.
Following the proposals by the rapporteur Haluk Koc (Turkey, SOC), the Assembly condemned such practices and recalled that States which are also members of the EU are bound by strict rules within the framework of the European legal order and in particular the Schengen Agreements.