The German Federal Government’s Special Representative for the Presidency of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers, State Minister Michael Roth, the President of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, Rik Daems, and the Secretary-General of the 47-nation Council of Europe, Marija Pejčinović Burić, have today made the following statement concerning the sentencing of Aleksey Navalny:
“We deeply regret the recent decision of a Moscow court to sentence Aleksey Navalny to a prison term. This decision is based on a criminal conviction which the European Court of Human Rights, in its Navalny. Russia judgment of 17 October 2017, found to have been arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable and, as a consequence, in violation of Articles 6 and 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights, to which Russia is a party. We call upon the Russian authorities to abide by their international obligations under the Convention.
