23/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have denounced two death sentences handed down by the Minsk City Court.
11/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Two PACE rapporteurs have expressed serious concern at the arrest of Oyub Titiev, a prominent human rights defender and head of the Memorial Human Rights Centre in the Chechen Republic.
04/01/2018 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"Yesterday, the Knesset gave its preliminary approval for legislation that would make it easier for a court to impose a death sentence for murder in attacks classified as terrorism. This is a worrying development," said Yves Cruchten.
21/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, and Andrea Rigoni, rapporteur on the situation in Belarus, have denounced the upholding of two death sentences by the Supreme Court of Belarus.
12/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“A frightening arsenal of instruments of torture are still being manufactured, sold and marketed in a number of Council of Europe member States,” Vusal Huseynov told the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights today in Paris.
12/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, on the basis of a report by Sabine Lahaye-Battheu, unanimously voted in favour of drafting a European convention on the profession of lawyer.
08/12/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
To mark Human Rights Day 2017, Olena Sotnyk, Chairperson of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, has called for Council of Europe member States to renew their commitment to the organisation’s basic standards.
16/11/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, has expressed outrage at the ‘failed’ execution in Ohio of 69-year-old convicted murderer, Alva Campbell, who suffers with serious breathing difficulties.
13/11/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
In response to developments in information technologies, the committee considers it urgent to modernise the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data.
31/10/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Raphaël Comte, who is preparing a report on “State of emergency: proportionality issues concerning derogations under Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights”, is to make a fact-finding visit to Turkey.
20/10/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius has expressed his deep concern about new reports on arrests of journalists and persons who have received political asylum on the basis of Red Notices issued by Interpol.
18/10/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“The jurisdictional immunity of international organisations should not be allowed to cover abuses of the European Convention on Human Rights”, pointed out Volker Ullrich, in his report adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee.