09/07/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee has given its backing to a new set of principles aimed at ensuring national Ombudsman’s offices across Europe remain independent, objective, transparent, fair and impartial.
05/07/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee has proposed that Council of Europe member States, which are also members of the EU, transpose into their national legislation the European Parliament's directive aimed at “guaranteeing a high level of protection” to whistleblowers.
27/06/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs stressed the fundamental importance of international cooperation in the field of criminal law : "States must react by cooperating with each other efficiently to uphold the rule of law".
17/06/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has strongly condemned the execution of Aliaksandr Zhylnikau. “I deeply regret this execution, despite the appeals of many,” he said.
05/06/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly on the abolition of the death penalty, has welcomed the decision of the state of New Hampshire in the United States to abolish the death penalty in the state.
29/05/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The rule of law in Malta is seriously undermined by the extreme weakness of its system of checks and balances, the Legal Affairs Committee has concluded, approving a report by Pieter Omtzigt.
28/05/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee has called on the Russian authorities to “re-open and continue” their investigation into the murder of Boris Nemtsov, listing a number of “serious concerns” over its independence and effectiveness.
16/05/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and the Chairperson of the Political Affairs Committee, denounced the judgment of the Supreme Court of Belarus confirming the death sentence of Aliaksandr Asipovich.
09/04/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The hearing on “Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the rule of law, in Malta and beyond: ensuring that the whole truth emerges” took place at 9am in Room 1 of the Council of Europe.
08/04/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Legal Affairs Committee has expressed alarm at the criminal charges laid against Laura Codruta Kovesi and suggested the charges “may well be politically motivated”.
19/03/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Aevarsdóttir, Sir Roger Gale and Stefan Schennach welcomed the release, following the Navruz presidential pardon, of more than 400 sentenced prisoners in Azerbaijan, including over 50 persons considered to be political prisoners.
19/03/2019 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Rapporteurs Frank Schwabe and Raphaël Comte today reacted to the sentencing by a court in the Chechen Republic of human rights activist Oyub Titiev to four years’ imprisonment in a penal colony.