{"id":906,"date":"2014-10-09T14:26:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=906"},"modified":"2014-10-10T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:39:08","slug":"the-definition-of-political-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=906","title":{"rendered":"The Definition of Political Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Written question No. 667 to the Committee of Ministers by Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, Group of the European People&#8217;s Party<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-907\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-907\" src=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin-info.hhd.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt.jpeg\" alt=\"Pieter Omtzigt\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt.jpeg 420w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt-160x160.jpeg 160w, https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PACE-Omtzigt-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pieter Omtzigt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In reply to my question about political prisoners in Azerbaijan, Mr Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan and Chairperson of the Committee of Ministers, stated that \u201cThe Council of Europe does not have a definition for political prisoners. When the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe creates criteria to define political prisoners, I can respond to your question, otherwise it is very hypothetical.\u201d (Doc AS (2014) CR 34, report of 34th sitting on 2 October 2014).<br \/>\nI am afraid Mr Mammadyarov\u2019s answer is wrong:<br \/>\n\u2013 See Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1900 (2012), adopted on 3 October 2012, entitled: \u201cThe definition of political prisoner\u201c;<br \/>\n\u2013 See also, in this connection, the Committee of Ministers decision, taken shortly after Azerbaijan\u2019s accession to the Council of Europe, which confirmed the existence of political prisoners in Azerbaijan: \u201cThe Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe welcomes the news that the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan has issued&#8230; a decree pardoning 89 political prisoners&#8230;\u201d and that Azerbaijan \u201cundertook to release or grant a new trial to all political prisoners\u201d (CM\/Del\/Dec(2001)765bis, Item 2.4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Omtzigt,<br \/>\nTo ask the Committee of Ministers:<br \/>\n\u2013 Does the Committee of Ministers agree with the above-cited statement made by its Chairperson and is it able to give a full answer to my original question, since its Chairperson clearly stated that a list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan can be given, if a definition exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) Written question No. 667 to the Committee of Ministers by Mr Pieter OMTZIGT, Netherlands, Group of the European People&#8217;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=906\" title=\"The Definition of Political Prisoner\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-azerbaijan-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}