| The key issues on the agenda of discussions between YABLOKO
members Grigory Yavlinsky and Alexander Shishlov meetings and
PACE politicians are the reforms in PACE and the Council of
Europe and drawing public attention to the Babayev case (leader
of the Dagestan YABLOKO and candidate to the State Duma Farid
Babayev was murdered in 2007, the trial has been still going
on).
On April 26-27 the founder of the YABLOKO party Grigory Yavlinsky
and member of YABLOKO’s Bureau and ex First Vice Chair of
the ALDE Group, PACE, Alexander Shishlov will be in Strasburg
on the invitation of one of PACE’s factions - the Alliance
of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group (ALDE).
Photo: Anne Brasseur, Chair of ALDE Group,
Alexander Shishlov and Grigory Yavlinsky
Photo: Grigory Yavlinsky and Alexander Shishlov
Grigory Yavlinsky and Alexander Shishlov will propose a number
of changes to the charter documents of PACE and CE. “The reforms
are necessary so that to prevent PACE’s turning into a kind
of small UN,” Grigory Yavlinsky stated at a press-conference
earlier today.
Russian politicians are also going to draw attention of the
corresponding European structures to the need of constant
monitoring over the trial in the Farid Babyev case, as the
case has been falling apart and witnesses disappearing.
Farid Babayev, human rights activist, leader of Dagestan’s
YABLOKO and number one in YABLOKO’s election list in Dagestan,
was gunned down in the lobby of his house on November 21,
2007, several days before the election to the State Duma.
On January 20, 2009, the Supreme Court of Dagestan found the
resident of Dagestan Rasil Mamedrizayev guilty of murder and
sentences him to 16 years of imprisonment. Seferali Sefemerzoyev
accused in complicity of murder was acquitted. On June 4,
209, the Supreme Court of Russia examined the cassation appeals
of the parties that were dissatisfied with the ruling by the
Dagestani Court sent the case to the Dagestani Supreme Court
to a new trial by a new composition of the court.
Grigory Yavlinsky and Alexander Shishlov’s schedule for April
26-27 includes meetings with Mr Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary
General of the Council of Europe, Mr Melvut Cavusoglu, President
of the PACE, rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee on Russia
Mr Andreas Gross and Mr Gyorgy Frunda, Mr Dick Marty, rapporteur
on the North Caucasus, Mr Bjorn von Sydow, Chair of the Political
Affairs Committee, as well as a speech at the meeting of the
Alliance of Liberal and Democrats for Europe (ALDE).
The Spring session of PACE will take place in Strasburg on
April 26-30 and will be devoted to the consequences of the
economic crisis, the war between Georgia and Russia and other
issues.
See also:
Farid
Babayev Case
Russia
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