Nils Muiznieks

CoE Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has sent a letter to Serbian Labor, Employment, Veterans and Social Affairs Minister Aleksandar Vulin.

In it, the Council of Europe (CoE) official expresses his concerns on the issue of reparations to victims of wartime crimes.

A delegation from Justice Ministry visited Strasbourg last week in order to brief the Council of Europe about post-coup attempt prosecutions in Turkey, Turkish Ambassador to the Council of Europe Erdoğan İşcan has said.

A working group came together "for consultations to develop compatibility in standards between Turkey and the Council of Europe," İşcan told the Hürriyet Daily News.

Europe is more scared of the migrant influx than of terrorism, a European rights monitor said in a report published on April 19.    
 
In an annual report, Nils Muiznieks, human rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, described 2015 as "a year of fear and insecurity" for the continent.    

The Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks has three Balkan governments for evicting Roma families from camps while not offering them any alternative accommodation.

A European human rights body has criticized Turkey for imposing days-long curfews in towns in southeast Turkey as its security forces battle outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, calling on the country to uphold human rights even as it battles the PKK.

Republican People's Party (CHP) head Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu has started a five-day European tour during which he is scheduled to meet top European politicians and Turks living in Europe, as part of his party's election campaign.

As part of his campaign for the Nov. 1 snap election, the leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP), Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, will gather with Turkish citizens during consecutive visits to six European countries, where he will also meet top European politicians in order to discuss the growing refugee crisis the EU has encountered. 

Prosecutors in ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on Aug. 21 demanded a nine-year jail term for a top investigative journalist, in a graft trial activists say is revenge for her reporting on high-level corruption. 

The Istanbul Governor's Office has defended its ban on the LGBTI pride march in Istanbul, amid reactions from the international community against the brutal police crackdown on marchers June 28.

The governorate banned the parade at the eleventh hour on the day of the planned march, despite the fact the event has taken place peacefully in Istanbul since 2003. 

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks has criticized Hungary's plans to build a fence along the border with Serbia.

"Hungary’s plan to build a fence to stop migrants is ill-advised. Focus should be on ensuring access to asylum, not impeding it," Muiznieks wrote on his Twitter account.