The winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will commence on January 25th, 2021. It will be the first time that MPs from the countries-members of the Council of Europe are meeting in Strasbourg for a full-scale session since the Covid-19-related restrictions.

On the eve of the session, we are holding an online meeting with PACE deputies, where we will inform them about new persecutions on the occupied peninsula.

Speakers:  

Mariia Mezentseva – Member of Parliament, Chairperson of Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 

Olga Skrypnyk – Head of the Crimean Human Rights Group

Anton Korynevych – Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea 

Rustem Umerov – Member of Parliament, Vice-Chairperson of Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

Yevheniia Kravchuk – Member of Parliament, Member of Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 

Lilia Hemedzhy – Crimea-based lawyer, human rights defender

Egidijus Vereikis – Member of Parliament of Lithuania, PACE delegate

Ahmet Yildiz – Member of Parliament, Chairperson of Turkish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 

Ria Oomen-Ruijten – Member of Parliament of the Netherlands, PACE delegate

Moderator: Roman Hromyk, International advocacy manager at the Human Rights Center ZMINA