04:08Mandatory Credit: PACE
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Russia Thursday to release opposition figure Alexei Navalny before June, with a resolution validated during the last spring session of the assembly in Strasbourg.
The PACE resolution was supported by 105 parliamentarians, with 26 opposed and 11 abstained.
"The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Navalny's conviction is illegal and yet he is still in prison," said ALDE delator Jacques Maire. "This is despite the request by the Committee of Ministers, responsible for supervising the enforcement of judgments, to quash his conviction and release him."
"The Court has decided. We at EPP believe that the Court's decisions are not negotiable and their implementation is not and cannot be a matter of national discretion," said EPP/CD spokesperson Dimitrios Kairidis.
"Mr. Navalny, in January of this year, was arrested because he had violated an order established by law. The law is very much in line with the German criminal code," said Member of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Fabrichnyy.
"He [Navalny] followed the rules for a certain period of time, the rules concerning parole, and therefore accepting the court sentence. But now there is this request for a sentence to be quashed. I mean should the decision of the supreme court of the Russian Federation be quashed? No," said Member of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Kislyak.
Last February, a court replaced Navalny's suspended sentence in an embezzlement case with a prison term for violating probation terms. Navalny said the trial was politically motivated. On March 31, Navalny began a hunger strike protesting the lack of treatment and demanding to be visited by doctors from outside the prison due to debilitating back and feet pain.
France: PACE adopts resolution demanding Navalny release before June
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Russia Thursday to release opposition figure Alexei Navalny before June, with a resolution validated during the last spring session of the assembly in Strasbourg.
The PACE resolution was supported by 105 parliamentarians, with 26 opposed and 11 abstained.
"The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Navalny's conviction is illegal and yet he is still in prison," said ALDE delator Jacques Maire. "This is despite the request by the Committee of Ministers, responsible for supervising the enforcement of judgments, to quash his conviction and release him."
"The Court has decided. We at EPP believe that the Court's decisions are not negotiable and their implementation is not and cannot be a matter of national discretion," said EPP/CD spokesperson Dimitrios Kairidis.
"Mr. Navalny, in January of this year, was arrested because he had violated an order established by law. The law is very much in line with the German criminal code," said Member of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Fabrichnyy.
"He [Navalny] followed the rules for a certain period of time, the rules concerning parole, and therefore accepting the court sentence. But now there is this request for a sentence to be quashed. I mean should the decision of the supreme court of the Russian Federation be quashed? No," said Member of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Kislyak.
Last February, a court replaced Navalny's suspended sentence in an embezzlement case with a prison term for violating probation terms. Navalny said the trial was politically motivated. On March 31, Navalny began a hunger strike protesting the lack of treatment and demanding to be visited by doctors from outside the prison due to debilitating back and feet pain.
Mandatory Credit: PACE
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Russia Thursday to release opposition figure Alexei Navalny before June, with a resolution validated during the last spring session of the assembly in Strasbourg.
The PACE resolution was supported by 105 parliamentarians, with 26 opposed and 11 abstained.
"The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Navalny's conviction is illegal and yet he is still in prison," said ALDE delator Jacques Maire. "This is despite the request by the Committee of Ministers, responsible for supervising the enforcement of judgments, to quash his conviction and release him."
"The Court has decided. We at EPP believe that the Court's decisions are not negotiable and their implementation is not and cannot be a matter of national discretion," said EPP/CD spokesperson Dimitrios Kairidis.
"Mr. Navalny, in January of this year, was arrested because he had violated an order established by law. The law is very much in line with the German criminal code," said Member of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Fabrichnyy.
"He [Navalny] followed the rules for a certain period of time, the rules concerning parole, and therefore accepting the court sentence. But now there is this request for a sentence to be quashed. I mean should the decision of the supreme court of the Russian Federation be quashed? No," said Member of the Federation Council of Russia Sergey Kislyak.
Last February, a court replaced Navalny's suspended sentence in an embezzlement case with a prison term for violating probation terms. Navalny said the trial was politically motivated. On March 31, Navalny began a hunger strike protesting the lack of treatment and demanding to be visited by doctors from outside the prison due to debilitating back and feet pain.