Amendment No. 1 | Doc. 14083 | 24 April 2017

Human rights in the North Caucasus: what follow-up to Resolution 1738 (2010)?

Signatories: Mr Jonas GUNNARSSON, Sweden, SOC ; Mr Tobias BILLSTRÖM, Sweden, EPP/CD ; Ms Lotta JOHNSSON FORNARVE, Sweden, UEL ; Ms Kerstin LUNDGREN, Sweden, ALDE ; Mr Johan NISSINEN, Sweden, NR ; Ms Carina OHLSSON, Sweden, SOC ; Ms Azadeh ROJHAN GUSTAFSSON, Sweden, SOC ; Mr Markus WIECHEL, Sweden, NR

In the draft resolution, at the end of paragraph 3.3, insert the following sentence:

"Recents reports of large-scale abductions, secret detentions, torture and even extrajudicial killings of LGBT persons in Chechnya are moreover a new and particularly grave concern;".

Explanatory note

These reports concern very grave violations of human rights, which the Assembly must strongly condemn.