The follow-up to the issue of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

Amendment No. 4 | Doc. 13079 | 21 January 2013

Signatories:

Mr Michael McNAMARA, Ireland, SOC ; Mr Jean-Pierre MICHEL, France, SOC ; Mr Stefan SCHENNACH, Austria, SOC ; Mr Björn von SYDOW, Sweden, SOC ; Lord John E. TOMLINSON, United Kingdom, SOC

Origin

2013 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 10, insert the following paragraph:

"It notes that the Rapporteur has carefully studied well over one hundred cases included on a consolidated list of presumed political prisoners prepared in cooperation with a number of Azerbaijani and international non-governmental organisations, lawyers and prisoners' family members."

Explanatory note

- to bring back a paragraph lost in the voting paragraph by paragraph in the committee meeting of June;

- this sentence also merely means that the Assembly takes note of certain facts, i.e. of the Rapporteur's working method through which he established the factual basis of his report.