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B.
Draft recommendation
1.
Referring to its Resolution (2023) “Transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule of law and
human rights”, the Parliamentary Assembly recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
1.1. review and update the Guidelines of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on
eradicating impunity for serious human rights violations, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 30
March 2011 at the 1110th meeting of the Minister’s Deputies, with a view to including transnational
repression techniques;
1.2. consider drafting a recommendation to member States on the fight against transnational
repression, taking due account of international human rights law and in particular the case-law of the
European Court of Human Rights. Such a recommendation would include a definition of transnational
repression that could be later adopted by member States and other Council of Europe bodies;
1.3. when supervising the execution of the Court’s judgments featuring transnational repression,
underline the requirement of individual accountability of perpetrators and call on the States concerned
to adopt general measures to prevent these practices in future and provide guarantees of non-repetition.
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