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Council of Europe chief under fire over rights report

PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk 21.06.2016 15:25
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe has come under fire for not mentioning - in an annual speech - human rights violations in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, and in separatist-controlled Donbas.
Thorbjoern JaglandThorbjoern JaglandMagnus Fröderberg/Wikimedia Commons

Iryna Herashchenko, the First Deputy Chair of Ukraine's parliament, said Secretary General Thorbjoern Jagland’s stance was “outrageous”.

Herashchenko said a Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe had asked Jagland: “How is it possible that in the 104 pages of the report there is not a word about the violations of basic human rights in annexed Crimea and in occupied Donbas, about torture and the arrests of Crimean Tatars, about hostages, about violations of the right to life, to freedom of expression and security."

Herashchenko said Jagland replied that "information on human rights in Crimea and Donbas was not included in the annual speech... because it should include information from Council of Europe missions monitoring the situation in Crimea and Donbas, and that last year such missions were not allowed (into those areas). And so such information was not included!”

Herashchenko added: “That is terrible! … his attitude is outrageous.”

Source: hromadskeradio.pl

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