Amendment 25
| Doc. 13588
| 30 September 2014
Signatories: Ms Marietta de POURBAIX-LUNDIN,
Sweden, EPP/CD ; Mr Pedro AGRAMUNT,
Spain, EPP/CD ; Mr Volodymyr ARIEV,
Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Tinatin BOKUCHAVA,
Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Henryk CIOCH,
Poland, EDG ; Mr Bernd FABRITIUS,
Germany, EPP/CD ; Ms Doris FIALA,
Switzerland, ALDE ; Mr Axel E. FISCHER,
Germany, EPP/CD ; Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI,
Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Mr Margus HANSON,
Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Mariusz KAMIŃSKI,
Poland, EDG ; Mr Giorgi KANDELAKI,
Georgia, EPP/CD ; Mr Arkadiusz MULARCZYK,
Poland, EDG ; Mr Pieter OMTZIGT,
Netherlands, EPP/CD ; Ms Liliana PALIHOVICI,
Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Mr Kimmo SASI,
Finland, EPP/CD ; Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS,
Lithuania, EPP/CD
In the draft resolution, paragraph 2, after the second sentence, insert the following sentence:
"It has to be noted that 2 years on, almost the entire leadership of the former ruling party has been arrested or is under prosecution or investigation: former PM and UNM Secretary General, Vano Merabishvili, former Defence Minister, Bacho Akhalaia, and former Tbilisi mayor and UNM campaign mangager, Gigi Ugulava, are in prison (pre-trial detention). The former President, Mikheil Saakashvili, has also been charged and sentenced to pre-trial detention in absentia as well as former Minister of Defence, David Keserashvili, and former Minister of Justice, Zurab Adeishvili."
Explanatory Note :
This amendment aims to state what is undisputed: prosecution en masse of opposition figures and, in particular, frequent application of pre-trial detention against them (noted in the report) has become a serious sign of Georgia's democratic backsliding.
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