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.
07/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
US whistleblower Edward Snowden is to testify from Moscow by live video-link at a parliamentary hearing on “mass surveillance” taking place at 2 p.m. today, Tuesday 8 April,in Strasbourg.
04/04/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
A joint parliamentary hearing on the need to eradicate statelessness in Europe, with a particular focus on statelessness among children, is to take place on 9 April on the margins of PACE’s spring session.
28/03/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, general rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has expressed her indignation over the increased number of executions in the world, revealed in an Amnesty International report published on 27 March 2014.
03/03/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee expressed its concern over the excesses of sects affecting minors and proposed establishing more measures and policies at national and European level to protect minors from such abuses.
03/03/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
At an exchange of views with Jean-Claude Trichet and Morten Kjaerum, the committee recalled the importance of respect for the fundamental values of the Council of Europe on the part of the EU.
03/03/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee condemned without reservation the violation of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine by armed forces of the Russian Federation over the weekend of 1st and 2nd March 2014.
28/02/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The committee is to hold a hearing on “European institutions and human rights in Europe”, with the participation of Jean-Claude Trichet and of Morten Kjaerum, Director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
18/02/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, welcomed the decision by a judge in Arkansas who blocked all executions in that state, until the 2013 law on execution procedures had been clarified.
13/02/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli has welcomed the announcement by the Governor of Washington that he will suspend executions in his state. “I congratulate Governor Inslee on his far-sighted and humane declaration", she stated.
31/01/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt (Netherlands, EPP/CD), rapporteur on “Keeping criminal and political responsibility separate”, has made a statement with regard to the prosecution of former government leaders in Georgia.