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Vladimir Kara-Murza

Hearing on targeted sanctions against the persons responsible for human rights violations inflicted upon...

01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

A PACE hearing on sanctions against persons on the ‘Kara-Murza list’ was organised by the Committee of Legal Affairs and Human Rights in Paris today, in the context of the report being prepared by PACE rapporteur Eerik-Niiles Kross (Estonia, ALDE) on this topic. The event heard from a number of...

Lord Keen (United Kingdom, EC/DA)

Council of Europe should establish a ‘mediation process’ to help resolve post-conflict disputes

01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

The Council of Europe should establish a “mediation process” to help member states resolve post-conflict disputes and find “reparations and remedies” which would defuse tension, overcome past divisions and work towards a common peaceful future, a PACE committee has proposed. Approving a draft...

Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC)

PACE and national parliamentarians can play a more active role in improving the timely and effective...

01/12/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

In an information note declassified on 1st December by the Legal Affairs Committee, Constantinos Efstathiou (Cyprus, SOC), outlined possible ways for PACE and national parliamentarians to become more actively engaged in promoting the timely and effective implementation of judgments of the...

LGBTI

PACE General Rapporteurs condemn decision to label the LGBTI movement in Russia as ‘extremist’

30/11/2023 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

The PACE General Rapporteur on human rights defenders and whistle-blowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), and PACE General Rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people, Christophe Lacroix (Belgium, SOC), have condemned today’s decision of the Russian Supreme Court to outlaw the...

 Ulvi Hasanli, Abzas Media

PACE rapporteurs call on the Azerbaijani authorities to immediately release Ulvi Hasanli

22/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”; Mogens Jensen (Denmark, SOC), PACE General Rapporteur on media freedom and safety of journalists; and Sunna Aevarsdottir (Iceland, SOC), PACE General...

Anna Politkovskaïa

Anna Politkovskaya’s killing: 'A modicum of justice has been taken away by the Putin regime'

15/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

The PACE General Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders and Whistleblowers, Emanuelis Zingeris (Lithuania, EPP/CD), has condemned the Russian President for pardoning a man responsible for his participation in the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an independent Russian journalist and human rights...

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PACE rapporteur urges swift creation of a tribunal to try Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, ‘as...

14/11/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Davor Stier (Croatia, EPP/CD), the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s rapporteur on the legal and human rights aspects of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, has sent the following message to the 'core group' of 38 countries willing to establish a special tribunal for the crime of...

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PACE General Rapporteur calls on Belarus not to carry out a new death sentence

20/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty Aleksandar Nikoloski (North Macedonia, EPP/CD) reacted today to a new death sentence in Belarus: “I condemn in the strongest possible terms yesterday’s judgment of the Minsk Regional Court, sentencing Aleksandr Taratuta (convicted of...

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PACE Rapporteur condemns the search and detention of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers

16/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

The General Rapporteur on Political Prisoners of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC), has condemned the searches and subsequent detention of Alexei Navalny’s lawyers, and called for their release. “According to reports, the homes of Vadim...

Hearing on the situation of Karabakh Armenians and the international obligations of Azerbaijan

Hearing on the human rights and humanitarian situation of Karabakh Armenians and the international...

12/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

A livestreamed public hearing on "The human rights and humanitarian situation of Karabakh Armenians and the international obligations of Azerbaijan" took place today in Strasbourg on the margins of the Assembly's autumn plenary session. Participants included: * Thomas de Waal, scholar and writer...

Dialogue with representatives of Russian democratic opposition forces

PACE to create a ‘contact platform’ for dialogue with representatives of Russian democratic opposition forces

10/10/2023 | Political Affairs and Democracy

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to create a “recurring contact platform” for dialogue with representatives of Russian democratic opposition forces who share Council of Europe values, fully respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemn Russia’s war of aggression...

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‘The death penalty is a relic of the past, a barbaric and inhuman practice that has no place in modern...

09/10/2023 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

On the eve of the 21st World Day against the Death Penalty (10 October), PACE General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty Aleksandar Nikoloski (North Macedonia, EPP/CD) made the following statement: “As stated in the Preamble to Protocol No. 13 to the European Convention on Human...