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01/05/2020 | Standing Committee

COVID-19: First meeting of the Standing Committee of the Assembly held by video-conference
Spanish police stop and warn the citizens to get back to their houses as a quarantine is set after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
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30/04/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

COVID-19: Committee chairs discuss the pandemic, human rights and the rule of law with Council of Europe...
Freedom of the press is at risk
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30/04/2020 | President

COVID-19 / World Press Freedom Day: ‘We need free and independent media, now more than ever’
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30/04/2020 | Bureau

COVID-19: PACE Summer session postponed to a later date
Václav Havel Human Rights Prize

27/04/2020 | Prizes

Václav Havel Human Rights Prize 2020: two extra months to submit nominations
Virtual meeting
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27/04/2020 | Standing Committee

COVID-19: Standing Committee meets by videoconference to assess national responses to the pandemic
A prison guard tower, Ankara, Turkey

24/04/2020 | News

COVID-19: Call for urgent legal steps to redress the discriminatory effects of the Turkish Criminal...
Sunna / Aeversdottir / Iceland

24/04/2020 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Rapporteur responds to Azerbaijan court’s acquittal of Ilgar Mammadov and Rasul Jafarov
The Supreme Court of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Baku.
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24/04/2020 | Monitoring

Rapporteurs welcome acquittals in Azerbaijan but regret the lack of independence of the judiciary
Website of the Russian Novaya Gazeta
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24/04/2020 | Culture, Science, Education and Media

COVID-19: Rapporteurs call on Russian authorities to protect journalist Elena Milashina as a matter of urgency

23/04/2020 | Equality and Non-Discrimination

COVID-19: Handbook for parliamentarians on the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention

23/04/2020 | President

COVID-19: 'Let’s not normalise the abnormal'