Margareta Kiener Nellen and Nilza de Sena open the briefings of parliamentary observers at the Azerbaijan election observation mission, Baku, 9 April 2018 * Azərbaycan dilində tərcüməsi aşağıda verilmişdir Photo opportunity on election day in Baku with observation leaders Election observers present findings at a press conference in Baku on 12 April BAKU, 9 April 2018 – Nilza de Sena (MP, Portugal), the OSCE Special Co-ordinator responsible for

Aziz Orudjev speaks to reporters after being released from prison, 5 April 2018. Photo courtesy of the Orudjev family. COPENHAGEN, 6 April 2018 – Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, today welcomed the release of journalist Aziz Orudjev, CEO of the Internet TV channel Canal 13, who was freed from prison in Azerbaijan on Thursday. Sanchez Amor expressed hope that this signals an

Nilza de Sena and Margareta Kiener Nellen COPENHAGEN, 5 April 2018 – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is deploying a mission of observers to Azerbaijan next week for the presidential election on 11 April. Nilza de Sena (MP, Portugal) will serve as Special Co-ordinator and leader of the 300-plus short-term OSCE observer mission, while Margareta Kiener Nellen (MP, Switzerland) will serve as head of the OSCE PA delegation of some 40 members of

Ignacio Cosido speaks at the Malta event, 22 March 2018. COPENHAGEN, 28 March 2018 – Spanish Senator Ignacio Cosido, Member of the OSCE PA Ad Hoc Committee on Countering Terrorism, participated in the Regional Workshop on “The Nexus of Parliamentarians and Criminal Justice Actors in Counter Terrorism,” held in Malta on 22 March by the International Institute for Justice and Rule of Law. During his keynote intervention in the session devoted to

Ignacio Sanchez Amor, Chair of the General Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions COPENHAGEN, 27 March 2018 – In response to the police shooting of unarmed 22-year-old Stephon Clark on 18 March in Sacramento, California, the Chair of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s human rights committee, Ignacio Sanchez Amor (MP, Spain), called for greater accountability and policing reform in the United States. “The latest case of a

Roberto Montella, George Tsereteli and Ingibjorg Gisladottir at the Polish Sejm, 22 March 2018 WARSAW, 23 March 2018 – Wrapping up a two-day visit to Warsaw, where meetings have taken place with colleagues from the Polish Parliament and from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President George Tsereteli (MP, Georgia) said today that solving common problems requires greater international