Amendment No. 9 | Doc. 14213 Part 1 | 25 January 2017

The progress of the Assembly’s monitoring procedure (September 2015-December 2016) and the periodic review of the honouring of obligations by Austria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France and Germany

Signatories: Mr Tiny KOX, Netherlands, UEL ; Mr Boriss CILEVIČS, Latvia, SOC ; Mr Yves CRUCHTEN, Luxembourg, SOC ; Ms Kerstin LUNDGREN, Sweden, ALDE ; Mr Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Denmark, UEL

Origin - 2017 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, replace paragraph 10.3 with the following paragraph:

"Azerbaijan: the persistent refusal to execute judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in violation of its membership obligations, and the harassment, arrests and persecution of human rights defenders, political activists, journalists and bloggers; with regard to the case of Ilgar Mammadov, the Assembly recalls the Committee of Ministers' interim resolution CM/ResDH(2016)144 stating that it is intolerable that, in a State subject to the rule of law, a person should continue to be deprived of his liberty on the basis of proceedings engaged, in breach of the Convention, with a view to punishing him for having criticised the government;".