05/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Andrea Rigoni, PACE rapporteur on the situation in Belarus and Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on the abolition of the death penalty, strongly condemn execution of Siarhei Vostrykau in Belarus.
19/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"President Erdogan should be under no illusion: reintroducing the death penalty would be simply incompatible with Turkey’s continued membership", said Yves Cruchten, General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty.
12/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am shocked that the State of Arkansas, which has not executed any prisoners since 2005, is planning to carry out seven executions in the space of eleven days," says PACE's Yves Cruchten.
07/04/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Yves Cruchten has condemned three executions carried out in the Gaza Strip by Hamas and urged PNC partners to intervene with Hamas to halt all executions in Gaza and to abolish the death penalty in Palestinian law.
06/04/2017 | 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 Ukraine on 12-14 April.
24/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, rapporteur on “The implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights”, just ended successive fact-finding visits to Warsaw (20-21 March)and Budapest (22-23 March).
07/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Red Notices” are part of an International Notice System, set up by INTERPOL and their alleged abuse by some member states in the pursuit of political objectives represent a serious challenge for the system, said rapporteur Bernd Fabritius.
07/03/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
The Legal Affairs Committee has congratulated the CPT on its “outstanding work” in the last 25 years, which has led to significant improvements in places of detention in member states, but believes more can be done to improve its efficiency.
17/02/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteur Marieluise Beck has urged Russia to drop the charges against Mykola Semena, a Crimean journalist whose trial for “separatism” and related offences is due to begin today.
02/02/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
"I am seriously alarmed by the Romanian government’s emergency decree, given immediate effect, which will decriminalise many, even serious cases of corruption and abuse of public office", said Bernd Fabritius.
21/01/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
PACE rapporteurs have expressed their deep concern at a decision by Russia's Constitutional Court that a European Court of Human Rights ruling on the payment of compensation to YUKOS shareholders should not be enforced.
04/01/2017 | 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 deplored the death sentence handed down on Kiryl Kazachok by a Belarusian court.