17/05/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) held a public hearing marking the 90th anniversary of Ukraine's Holodomor, or Great Famine, which was livestreamed in English on Tuesday 21 May 2024. The Holodomor was a mass famine in grain-growing areas of the country which began in the...
14/05/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “The detention of Julian Assange and its chilling effects on human rights”, Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), has concluded a two-day fact-finding visit to the United Kingdom, during which she met Julian Assange in...
30/04/2024 | Monitoring
Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights...
22/04/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”, has welcomed the decision to release Gubad Ibadoghlu, an Azerbaijani academic, politician, and an anti-corruption campaigner, from prison and place him...
13/03/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE’s General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers and rapporteur on “Alexei Navalny’s death and the need to counter Vladimir Putin’s totalitarian regime and its war on democracy”, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned last night’s attack against Leonid Volkov...
08/03/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”, has strongly condemned the recent arrests of journalists associated with the independent media outlet Toplum TV and activists of the Institute for...
04/03/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
All the persons directly responsible for and participating in the persecution and ill-treatment of Vladimir Kara-Murza* should be included in sanctions lists naming individuals, which are established under the “Magnitsky laws”, said PACE's Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, meeting...
27/02/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have reacted to today’s judgment of a court in Moscow, sentencing Oleg Orlov, co...
15/01/2024 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on political prisoners, Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), today issued a statement concerning the alleged ill-treatment and detention of Nikola Sandulović, leader of the Serbian Republican Party: “According to Mr...
12/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE’s General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), today issued a statement concerning the recent disappearance of Alexey Navalny from the Russian penal colony in which he was imprisoned: “According to recent reports, Alexey Navalny is no longer imprisoned in a...
01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE hearing on sanctions against persons on the ‘Kara-Murza list’ was organised by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights in Paris today, in the context of the report being prepared by PACE rapporteur Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) on this topic. The event heard from a number of...
01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Council of Europe should establish a “mediation process” to help member states resolve post-conflict disputes and find “reparations and remedies” which would defuse tension, overcome past divisions and work towards a common peaceful future, a PACE committee has proposed. Approving a draft...