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...
01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In an information note declassified on 1st December by the Legal Affairs Committee, Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), outlined possible ways for PACE and national parliamentarians to become more actively engaged in promoting the timely and effective implementation of judgments of the...
30/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), have condemned today’s decision of the Russian Supreme Court to outlaw the...
22/11/2023 | 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”; Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on media freedom and safety of journalists; and Sunna Aevarsdottir (Iceland, SOC), PACE General...
15/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The PACE General Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned the Russian President for pardoning a man responsible for his participation in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an independent Russian journalist and human rights...
14/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Davor Stier (Croatia, EPP/CD), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s rapporteur on the legal and human rights aspects of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, has sent the following message to the 'core group' of 38 countries willing to establish a special tribunal for the crime of...