22/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On Wednesday 21 June Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD) was appointed as General Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers by the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. “Human rights defenders and...
21/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Adopting a draft resolution on allegations of systemic torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in places of detention in Europe, based on a report by Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights called for enhanced measures to combat...
20/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteurs on Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers, and on Political Prisoners, of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD) and Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have warned against the extradition to the United States of...
08/06/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Today Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, the prominent Russian human rights group and Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate, is facing trial for repeatedly discrediting the Russian armed forces, and risks being sentenced to three years of imprisonment,” said PACE’s General Rapporteur for Political...
25/05/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A PACE committee is urging the United Kingdom government and parliament to carefully consider the content of provisions of the Illegal Migration Bill and Bill of Rights Bill that – were they to enter into force – “could risk placing the UK in breach of its international obligations”. Unanimously...
23/05/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Since 2014, there have been 854 reported incidents of physical transnational repression carried out by 38 governments in 91 countries worldwide. PACE Legal Affairs Committee is alarmed about the number and gravity of acts of transnational repression committed in Europe. Russia, recently excluded...
26/04/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Joint statement by George Katrougalos (Greece, UEL), rapporteur for “The European Convention on Human Rights and national constitutions” and Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), rapporteur for “Implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights” “In two resolutions adopted this...
22/03/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A former prisoner who leaked videos of torture in Russian prisons, as well as the founder of a Russian human rights organisation and website which published this material, were among participants at a PACE parliamentary hearing on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in places...
22/03/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights today expressed great concern by the humanitarian crisis unfolding due to the ongoing obstruction of the Lachin Corridor. It adopted the following statement: Statement by the Committee on Legal Affairs on the obstruction of the Lachin Corridor
22/03/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
There has been an increase in the number of European Court of Human Rights judgments pending before the Committee of Ministers, from 5,231 at the end of 2019 to 6,256 on 1 March 2023, the PACE Legal Affairs Committee warned today. Having seen previous progress on reducing the backlog, it...
22/03/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
There is not any hierarchy between the European Convention of Human Rights, EU law and national constitutions, in the sense of a traditional approach to the hierarchy of norms within a constitutional framework. Indeed, in the context of such multi-level constitutionalism “any attempt to impose...
02/03/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On Wednesday the Israeli Knesset gave its preliminary approval to a bill that would allow courts to impose the death penalty for terrorists found guilty of killing Israeli citizens. “This is a worrying development,” Aleksandar Nikoloski (North Macedonia, EPP/CD), PACE’s General Rapporteur on...