20/03/2025 | Monitoring
PACE’s Rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), have today made the following statement concerning the massive protest in Belgrade of 15 March 2025: "We are very concerned about the escalation of tensions in the country, which led...
20/02/2025 | Monitoring
The PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC) and Victoria Tiblom (Sweden, ECPA), have today made the following statement concerning the situation in the country: "We are very concerned about the political climate in Serbia, which has recently been marked by a...
16/01/2025 | Monitoring
PACE's co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), and the General Rapporteur for political prisoners, Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), have expressed deep concern at the recent sentencing of Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, a well-known Azerbaijani civil...
10/01/2025 | Monitoring
As part of the ongoing monitoring procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the co-rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC), will carry out a fact-finding mission to Tbilisi from 14 to 16 January 2025. The aim of the...
23/12/2024 | Monitoring
PACE’s Rapporteur for the monitoring of Serbia, Axel Schäfer (Germany, SOC), has today expressed his concern at recent revelations about the surveillance of Serbian journalists and activists. "I am deeply dismayed at recent findings by Amnesty International and the Balkan Investigative Reporting...
10/12/2024 | Monitoring
The PACE monitoring rapporteurs for Georgia, Claude Kern (France, ALDE) and Edite Estrela (Portugal, SOC) today expressed their deep concern about the arrests and pretrial detentions of opposition and protests leaders as well as the raiding of their offices by the police, reportedly on...
26/11/2024 | Monitoring
Ending a fact-finding visit to Warsaw, PACE co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Poland Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC) has strongly welcomed the reforms initiated by the authorities to ensure the independence of the judiciary in Poland and to implement the judgements of the European Court of Human...
15/11/2024 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteur of the PACE Monitoring Committee for Azerbaijan, Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC), has made the following statement on the worsening health situation of civil society activists Anar Mammadli and Gubad Ibadoghlu: “I am deeply concerned about the health situation of human rights...
15/11/2024 | Monitoring
Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) and George Papandreou (Greece, SOC), co-rapporteurs for the honouring of Council of Europe obligations and commitments by Hungary, are to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 18-20 November. Hungary is one of ten countries currently subject to the full...
15/11/2024 | Monitoring
Azadeh Rojhan (Sweden, SOC), co-rapporteur for the honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Poland, is to make a fact-finding visit to the country from 18-20 November to look at recent judicial reforms, polarisation and the functioning of the country’s system of checks and...
13/11/2024 | Monitoring
The co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee for Türkiye, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), has made the following statement on recent developments in the country: “I am seriously concerned about the ongoing practice of dismissing mayors in municipalities run by the opposition and replacing them...
13/09/2024 | Monitoring
In an information note following his visit to Türkiye from 11 to 14 June 2024, Stefan Schennach, one of the co-rapporteurs on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye, expressed a number of concerns relating to the independence of the judiciary, prison conditions, the execution of...