06/06/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pedro Agramunt will make a fact-finding visit to Ankara on 11-12 June, in the context of the preparation of his report on the “Abuse of pre-trial detention in States Parties to the European Convention on Human Rights”.
03/06/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Recent events in Russia concerning human rights defenders and civil society are disappointing and prove that the state-orchestrated campaign aimed at silencing independent civil society continues, stated Mailis Reps.
27/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Notwithstanding the various measures taken over the years to strengthen the independence of the Court, there still is room for improvement, PACE’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights said.
27/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee condemned the use of Article 12 of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons in the Safarov case "as a violation of the principles of good faith in international relations".
21/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has unreservedly condemned the execution in Gaza of two Palestinians accused of “collaboration” with Israel – one by hanging and the other by firing squad.
15/05/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Belarus’s efforts to move closer to the PACE will remain vain and fruitless as long as the death penalty is imposed on any Belarusian citizen,” two rapporteurs said, speaking following the execution of Hryhoriy Yuzepchuk.
30/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“The botched execution of Clayton Lockett in dreadful torment, on 29 April in Oklahoma, again demonstrates the cruelty and inhumanity of this penalty and the urgency of an overall moratorium,” said Ms Karamanli.
28/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“I note that Turkey is one of the countries with the highest number of non-executed ECHR judgments and I hope that major structural problems will soon be overcome,” said Mr de Vries.
10/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two committees have expressed their deep concern over the death sentences that were handed down in Egypt against more than five hundred supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
10/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee is worried about the recent restrictions in Turkey of access to internet services by Google, Twitter and YouTube, during election time, which are patent violations of the right to freedom of expression and information.
08/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
US whistleblower Edward Snowden, testifying by video-link to a PACE hearing on “mass surveillance”, has told parliamentarians: “Dragnet mass surveillance is ineffective at preventing terrorism”.
08/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli called on the Texan authorities today not to execute Ramiro Hernandez Llanas, a Mexican national sentenced to death in February 2000, whose execution is scheduled for 9 April in Texas.