Oslo – Safeguarding international institutions against authoritarian abuse
13 May 2014
Gerald Knaus shares the story of how the government of Azerbaijan has captured the Council of Europe.
ESI's Gerald Knaus was in Oslo taking the campaign for Council of Europe reform and for a "Europe without political prisoners" to Scandinavia. He spoke at a panel organised by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee on "Safeguarding international institutions against authoritarian abuse".
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Bjørn Engesland, Secretary General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee |
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"My struggle to get off the Interpol arrest order list", Bill Browder, Head of the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky Campaign |
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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aljokhina of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot/Zona Prava ("Law Zone"). |
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08:20 |
"The case of Council of Europe and other European institutions", Gerald Knaus, Chairman, European Stability Initiative (ESI) |
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08:35 |
"The case of INTERPOL", Jago Russell, Chief Executive, Fair Trials International |
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08:50 |
"Traditional values" as a way of undermining respect for human rights: The case of the UN Human Rights Council, Gunnar M. Ekeløve-Slydal, Deputy Secretary General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee |
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09:00 |
Panel discussion: Ways to safeguard the institutions. In addition to the speakers, we will hear comments from Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy. |
- Presentation by Gerald Knaus: The capture of the Council of Europe
- Presentation by Jago Russell: The case of Interpol
- Video clips of all presentations
- Fritanke.no, John Færseth, "Pussy Riot mener russisk minister bør feriere hjemme" ("Pussy Riot believes Russian minister should go on vacation at home") (13 May 2014)
- NIDA's "Live not by Lies" Baku Court Speech – May 2014 (6 May 2014)
- The Cat and Mouse principle and the visit by Mr. Jagland in Baku (5 May 2014). Also available in Greek: Το παιχνίδι της γάτας και του ποντικιού και η επίσκεψη του κ. Γιάγκλαντ στο Μπακού
- Open letter to 125 current and former members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (23 April 2014). Translations of the open letter are available in: Azeri, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish
- ESI newsletter: Hunger strike, European values and an Open Letter (23 April 2014)
- ESI country section on Azerbaijan
Gerald Knaus (right)
View of the audience
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aljokhina (Pussy Riot)