Amendment No. 15 | Doc. 14083 | 24 April 2017

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

Signatories: Mr Frank SCHWABE, Germany, SOC ; Mr Yves CRUCHTEN, Luxembourg, SOC ; Ms Ute FINCKH-KRÄMER, Germany, SOC ; Ms Gabriela HEINRICH, Germany, SOC ; Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, EPP/CD

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 3.2, insert the following paragraph:

"Threats by high-ranking local officials and policy makers, arbitrary detentions, the recent sentencing of a "Caucasian Knot" journalist to three years in prison on allegedly fabricated drug possession charges and the violent attack against a group of visiting journalists all serve to discourage journalists from exercising their profession in the Chechen Republic."