09/09/2015 | Election observation
The delegation was assured by the representatives of the Belarusian authorities, that all necessary measures will be undertaken to guarantee the transparency of the electoral process including during the voting on 11 October.
04/09/2015 | Election observation
A delegation led by Reha Denemeç will carry out a pre-electoral mission to Belarus on 8-9 September, to assess the election campaign and political climate prior to the presidential election on 11 October.
23/08/2015 | President
Anne Brasseur welcomed the release of six political prisoners by the Belarusian authorities but expressed her continuing concern about the political orientation of leaders.
21/04/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Belarus has shown signs of opening-up, which I hope will be followed by concrete steps that could lead to improve the human rights situation and the normalisation of relations with the Council of Europe, said M. Rigoni.
20/03/2015 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marietta Karamanli, PACE general rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty, condemned the death sentence issued by the Rechytsa district court against Siarhei Ivanou at the end of a trial which had been held in camera.
27/02/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“This is the first visit by a Rapporteur in more than five years and it is time for Belarus and our Assembly to start looking in the same direction,” said Andrea Rigoni at the end of a two-day working visit to Minsk.
20/02/2015 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur of the Political Affairs Committee, will make a fact-finding visit to Minsk on 25-26 February, in the context of the preparation of his report on the situation in Belarus.
05/11/2014 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteurs on abolition of the death penalty and on the situation in Belarus have expressed deep concern at reports of the execution in Belarus of Alyaksandr Hrunou, believed to be the third this year.
15/05/2014 | Political Affairs and Democracy
“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.
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.
23/04/2014 | President
“The Assembly has on numerous occasions expressed its total and unconditional condemnation of the death penalty,” said Anne Brasseur in reaction to the execution in Belarus of Pavel Sialiun, aged 23.
20/12/2013 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Marina Schuster, General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty, and Andres Herkel, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, condemned the death sentence passed on 26 November, but which only became known this week.