02/04/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Boriss Cilevics, has called on Spain and Turkey to include imprisoned politicians in early releases prompted by the threat posed by the Coronavirus in overcrowded prisons.
31/03/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Frank Schwabe, Rapporteur on 'the continuing need to restore human rights and the rule of law in the North Caucasus', has called on Ramzan Kadyrov to withdraw his call for anyone found breaking coronavirus quarantine to be killed.
24/03/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has welcomed the decision of the State of Colorado to abolish the death penalty and to commute the sentences of persons on death row to life sentences.
18/03/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Ævarsdottir, rapporteur for follow-up to PACE Resolution 2322 (2020) on “reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan”, has welcomed yesterday's release by the Azerbaijani authorities of Afgan Mukhtarli,
10/03/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has condemned the handing down in Belarus of a death sentence on Viktar Skrundzik for the murder of two elderly people in January 2019.
28/02/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“It is now five years since Boris Nemtsov was assassinated in central Moscow. He was a Russian opposition politician and an advocate for democracy, who struggled tirelessly to uncover the truth,” said Emanuelis Zingeris.
28/02/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders has expressed grave concern about the re-arrest of Osman Kavala, after he was acquitted on charges of “attempting to overthrow the government and the constitutional order”.
14/02/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“I would like to thank the Maltese authorities for our frank, open and constructive discussions”, said Pieter Omtzigt, rapporteur on Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination at the end of his two-day visit to Malta.
13/02/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt, PACE rapporteur on “Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination and the rule of law in Malta and beyond: ensuring that the whole truth emerges”, will visit Malta from 13 to 14 February.
14/01/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Sunna Ævarsdottir, rapporteur on ‘reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan’, today condemned the exclusion of Ilgar Mammadov and other potential candidates from the parliamentary elections on 9 February.
13/01/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pieter Omtzigt, rapporteur on ‘Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination and the rule of law in Malta and beyond’, responded to the appointment of Robert Abela as Prime Minister of Malta, following his election.
13/01/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Titus Corlăţean, Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has denounced a judgment of the Mahilyow Court pronouncing death sentences for brothers Kostev, for stabbing to death their former school teacher.