05/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
“Following the death in prison of the Azerbaijani blogger Mehman Galandarov, who had been in pre-trial detention for almost three months, Alain Destexhe appeals to the Azerbaijani authorities to shed light on the circumstances of his death”.
05/05/2017 | Legal Affairs and Human Rights
Bernd Fabritius, rapporteur on “Abusive use of the INTERPOL system: the need for more stringent legal safeguards”, has welcomed INTERPOL’s recently adopted practice of publishing excerpts from decisions of its appeals body.
05/05/2017 | Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development
Luís Leite Ramos, General Rapporteur on Local and Regional Authorities, represented the Assembly at the conference organised by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities today in Eupen(Belgium).
05/05/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
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.
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.
04/05/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
The committee has called on member States of the Council of Europe and the EU to take all appropriate measures in order to maintain stability and contribute to Tunisia’s transition to democracy.
04/05/2017 | News
Rapporteurs have called on the authorities of Azerbaijan to conduct an urgent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of blogger Mehman Galandarov, who was found hanged in his cell in a Baku prison.
04/05/2017 | Monitoring
The monitoring co-rapporteurs of Azerbaijan, Stefan Schennach and Cezar Florin Preda, have expressed concern over the death of blogger Mehman Galandarov, who was found hanged in his cell in Baku Detention Centre No.1 on 28 April.
02/05/2017 | Culture, Science, Education and Media
The PACE's Committee on Culture has called for stronger commitment from governments to guaranteeing journalists’ security and freedom and upholding media pluralism and independence.
02/05/2017 | Political Affairs and Democracy
Josette Durrieu, rapporteur on “The evaluation of the Partnership for democracy in respect of the Parliament of Jordan”, started a three-day visit to Amman. She will meet, in particular, the Prime Minister and the Speakers of both Chambers of Parliament.
28/04/2017 | Equality and Non-Discrimination
The Committee on Equality expressed its deep concern at the growing trend in European countries and beyond to challenge the achievements made in the field of women’s rights over recent decades.
28/04/2017 | Bureau
The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), meeting in Strasbourg today, resolved that it has no confidence in Pedro Agramunt as President of the Assembly.