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2019/2734(RSP) Resolution on Russia, notably the situation of environmental activists and Ukrainian political prisoners

Progress: Procedure completed

Legal Basis:
RoP 144

Events

2019/07/18
   EP - Results of vote in Parliament
2019/07/18
   EP - Debate in Parliament
2019/07/18
   EP - Decision by Parliament
Details

The European Parliament adopted by 458 votes to 80, with 89 abstentions, a resolution on Russia, notably the situation of environmental activists and Ukrainian political prisoners.

The text adopted in plenary had been tabled as a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.

Firstly, it stated that the EU does not recognise the enforcement of Russian legislation in Crimea and Sevastopol and expects all illegally detained Ukrainian citizens in the Crimean peninsula and in Russia to be released immediately.

The Russian authorities and political leadership continue their repressive and authoritarian regime against their own citizens, civil society, political opposition and media workers. Russia’s slide into authoritarian rule has had a negative impact on EU-Russia relations and on stability in Europe and the world.

Many of the prisoners and detainees have faced harsh and inhumane conditions in prisons, causing physical and psychological risks to their health.

Against this background, Parliament called on the Russian authorities to:

release without further delay and unconditionally all illegally and arbitrarily detained Ukrainian citizens, both in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine; ensure full cooperation with UN Special Procedures, including by extending invitations to visit the country to the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and the Special Representative on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, so that they may report on the situation of environmental and human rights defenders; accept the European Union proposal to consider introducing permanent monitoring of the trials of victims of political persecution in the Russian Federation and occupied Crimea; recognise the crucial role of environmental defenders in protecting the environment and in ensuring respect for environmental rights and to publicly condemn all attacks, intimidation, harassment and criminalisation of environmental defenders; stop curtailing the peaceful and legitimate activities of environmental organisations by fabricating criminal cases against local environmental activists, arresting participants in peaceful local protests and imposing disproportionately heavy fines on them; take the appropriate legal steps and use all available legal tools to prevent and put a stop to the attacks against environmental activists; ensure effective investigation and accountability in the case of Andrey Rudomakha and other cases of attacks against environmental defenders; ensure full respect for the rights of all detained persons, to ensure that all prisoners receive proper medical attention and treatment, and to respect medical ethics, including no imposition of unwanted treatment or force-feeding in the case of hunger strikes that may amount to torture and other ill-treatment.

Documents
2019/07/18
   EP - End of procedure in Parliament
2019/07/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
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2019/07/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
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2019/07/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
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2019/07/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
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2019/07/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
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2019/07/17
   EP - Motion for a resolution
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2019/07/17
   Joint motion for resolution
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Activities

Votes

RC-B9-0012/2019 - Am 1 #

2019/07/18 Outcome: +: 352, -: 228, 0: 68
PL RO ES NL CZ SE LT HR HU SK FI DK EE BE BG LU LV SI EL MT CY AT IE GB PT FR DE IT
Total
43
27
44
24
18
20
10
11
15
12
11
11
4
19
15
5
7
6
17
6
5
18
9
58
19
72
80
62
icon: PPE PPE
149

Finland PPE

2

Denmark PPE

For (1)

1

Belgium PPE

Abstain (1)

3

Luxembourg PPE

2

Latvia PPE

2

Slovenia PPE

3

Malta PPE

2

Cyprus PPE

1
3
icon: Renew Renew
97

Lithuania Renew

1

Croatia Renew

For (1)

1

Hungary Renew

2

Slovakia Renew

2

Finland Renew

3

Estonia Renew

2

Luxembourg Renew

2

Latvia Renew

For (1)

1

Slovenia Renew

For (1)

Against (1)

2

Austria Renew

For (1)

1

Ireland Renew

For (1)

1
icon: ECR ECR
54

Netherlands ECR

4

Lithuania ECR

1

Croatia ECR

For (1)

1

Bulgaria ECR

2

Latvia ECR

Against (1)

1
icon: S&D S&D
133

Lithuania S&D

2

Croatia S&D

For (1)

3

Slovakia S&D

For (1)

Against (1)

Abstain (1)

3

Finland S&D

Against (1)

1

Denmark S&D

2

Estonia S&D

2

Belgium S&D

Against (1)

3

Latvia S&D

2

Slovenia S&D

Against (1)

1

Greece S&D

Abstain (1)

2

Malta S&D

4

Cyprus S&D

For (1)

Abstain (1)

2
5
icon: GUE/NGL GUE/NGL
39

Netherlands GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Czechia GUE/NGL

Abstain (1)

1

Sweden GUE/NGL

Abstain (1)

1

Finland GUE/NGL

For (1)

1

Denmark GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Belgium GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Cyprus GUE/NGL

2

Ireland GUE/NGL

4

United Kingdom GUE/NGL

Against (1)

1

Portugal GUE/NGL

4
icon: NI NI
45

Croatia NI

2

Hungary NI

1

Slovakia NI

2

Germany NI

Against (1)

1
icon: ID ID
62

Czechia ID

Against (2)

2

Finland ID

2

Denmark ID

For (1)

1

Belgium ID

Abstain (1)

3

Austria ID

3
icon: Verts/ALE Verts/ALE
69

Spain Verts/ALE

Against (1)

1

Netherlands Verts/ALE

3

Czechia Verts/ALE

3

Sweden Verts/ALE

2

Lithuania Verts/ALE

2

Finland Verts/ALE

2

Denmark Verts/ALE

2

Belgium Verts/ALE

3

Luxembourg Verts/ALE

Against (1)

1

Latvia Verts/ALE

Against (1)

1

Austria Verts/ALE

Against (2)

2

Ireland Verts/ALE

Against (1)

1

Portugal Verts/ALE

Against (1)

1

History

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Russia, notably the situation of environmental activists and Ukrainian political prisoners
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Resolution on Russia, notably the situation of environmental activists and Ukrainian political prisoners