21/08/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I condemn the Red Notice against Dogan Akhanli requested by Turkey and invite Interpol to re-examine it in light of the rules outlawing politically-motivated interventions and to delete the Notice as appropriate”, Bernd Fabritius said.
24/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have denounced the two death sentences handed down by the Mogilev regional court in Belarus.
17/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius, rapporteur on ‘new threats to the rule of law in Council of Europe member States – selected examples’, expressed his deep alarm following the adoption of two new laws relating to the judiciary in Poland.
13/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty for the PACE, Yves Cruchten, has strongly condemned the execution of William Charles Morva in the US Federal State of Virginia, on 6 July.
13/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty for the PACE, Yves Cruchten, has strongly condemned the execution of two men – Masakatsu Nishikawa and Koichi Sumida – in Japan on 6 July 2017.
03/07/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE's Legal Committee welcomes the Venice Commission’s "Rule of Law Checklist" - which introduces a new, uniform benchmark for measuring compliance with one of the founding principles of the Council of Europe.
27/06/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
On 27 June 2017 the committee held a parliamentary hearing on this subject with the participation of Professor Marc Bossuyt, Professor Krzysztof Drzewicki and Dr. Peter Schneiderhan.
08/06/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am deeply concerned at the arrest of Taner Kiliç, a lawyer and head of Amnesty International in Turkey, suspected of belonging to the Gülen movement," said rapporteur Yves Pozzo Di Borgo (France, EPP/CD).
24/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius and Raphael Comte today expressed their concern at the apparent lack of an effective domestic remedy for persons who have been dismissed from their jobs, arrested or detained by the Turkish authorities.
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.