“Transnational
repression as a growing threat to the rule of law and human rights”,
the Parliamentary Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
1.1 review and update the “Eradicating
impunity for serious human rights violations” guidelines, adopted
on 30 March 2011 at the 1110th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies,
with a view to including transnational repression techniques;
1.2 consider drawing up a recommendation to member States
on the fight against transnational repression, taking due account
of international human rights law and in particular the case law
of the European Court of Human Rights. Such a recommendation would
include a definition of transnational repression that could be later
adopted by member States and Council of Europe bodies;
1.3 when supervising the execution of the European Court of
Human Rights’ judgments concerning cases which feature transnational
repression, underline the requirement of individual accountability
of perpetrators and call on the States concerned to adopt general
measures to prevent these practices in future and provide guarantees
of non-repetition.
