Amendment No. 33 | Doc. 14083 | 24 April 2017

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

Signatories: Mr Emanuelis ZINGERIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD ; Mr Volodymyr ARIEV, Ukraine, EPP/CD ; Ms Sofio KATSARAVA, Georgia, SOC ; Mr Jaak MADISON, Estonia, EC ; Mr Kęstutis MASIULIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD ; Ms Elisabeth SCHNEIDER-SCHNEITER, Switzerland, EPP/CD

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 3.3, insert the following paragraph:

"The recent reports of large-scale abductions, secret detentions, torture and extrajudicial killings of LGBT persons in Chechnya is a new challenge to the Council of Europe; The State-orchestrated mass scale persecution of a target group based on the sexual orientation presents a grave concern of mass atrocities taking place whithin the Council of Europe Member State, and compels the Council of Europe to take urgent steps and to adopt a Resolution ordering a special investigation into the matter."