Amendment No. 2 | Doc. 12957 | 26 June 2012

The situation of human rights defenders in Council of Europe member States

Signatories: Ms Mailis REPS, Estonia, ALDE ; Mr Mevlüt ÇAVUŞOĞLU, Turkey, EDG ; Mr Serhii KIVALOV, Ukraine, EDG ; Mr Christoph STRÄSSER, Germany, SOC ; Mr Klaas de VRIES, Netherlands, SOC

Origin - 2012 - Third part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 5.2, before the word "harassment", insert the following words:

"administrative, fiscal or judicial".

Explanatory note

Human rights defenders are especially subject to administrative, fiscal or judicial harassment; therefore, it is worth specifying these types of harassment, which are also described in the report.