18/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
At its meeting in Belgrade, the Legal Affairs Committee deplored the “delays in implementing the Court’s judgments, the lack of political will to implement judgments on the part of certain States Parties and all attempts made to undermine the Court’s authority and the Convention-based human...
05/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Following the death in prison of the Azerbaijani blogger Mehman Galandarov, who had been in pre-trial detention for almost three months, Alain Destexhe appeals to the Azerbaijani authorities to shed light on the circumstances of his death”.
05/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius, rapporteur on “Abusive use of the INTERPOL system: the need for more stringent legal safeguards”, has welcomed INTERPOL’s recently adopted practice of publishing excerpts from decisions of its appeals body.
05/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Andrea Rigoni, PACE rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, strongly condemn execution of Siarhei Vostrykau in Belarus.
19/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"President Erdogan should be under no illusion: reintroducing the death penalty would be simply incompatible with Turkey’s continued membership", said Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty.
12/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am shocked that the State of Arkansas, which has not executed any prisoners since 2005, is planning to carry out seven executions in the space of eleven days," says PACE's Yves Cruchten.
07/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten has condemned three executions carried out in the Gaza Strip by Hamas and urged PNC partners to intervene with Hamas to halt all executions in Gaza and to abolish the death penalty in Palestinian law.
06/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Strasbourg, 06.04.2017 - Raphaël Comte (Switzerland, ALDE), who is preparing a report for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “State of emergency: proportionality issues concerning derogations under Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, is to make a...
24/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, rapporteur on “The implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights”, just ended successive fact-finding visits to Warsaw (20-21 March)and Budapest (22-23 March).
07/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Red Notices” are part of an International Notice System, set up by INTERPOL and their alleged abuse by some member states in the pursuit of political objectives represent a serious challenge for the system, said rapporteur Bernd Fabritius.
07/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee has congratulated the CPT on its “outstanding work” in the last 25 years, which has led to significant improvements in places of detention in member states, but believes more can be done to improve its efficiency.
17/02/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteur Marieluise Beck has urged Russia to drop the charges against Mykola Semena, a Crimean journalist whose trial for “separatism” and related offences is due to begin today.