Guide to a Crime Scene - Azerbaijan and the Council of Europe 2022-2024

2 Council of Europe, Meeting between the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Baku and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 4 April 2023. [...] Communication of the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Mr René van der Linden, to the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly, 23 January 2006; PACE, 28 September-2 October 2009, 2 October 2009; PACE, 25-29 janvier 2010, 29 January 2010; Council of Europe, Proceedings/Actes High Level Conference on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights, 19 February 2010. [...] 44 Council of Europe, Meeting between the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Baku and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, 4 April 2023. [...] All this puts into question the country’s will to respect the basic principles enshrined in Article 3 of, and the Preamble to, the Statute of the Council of Europe … serious violations of political freedoms, often coupled with violations of non-derogable rights, such as the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, and/or allegations of lack of independence of the judiciary cast doubts as to the e. [...] www.esiweb.org 34 THE (STILL) SILENT COMMITTEE OF MINISTERS The Committee of Ministers (CoM) represents the governments of the 46 member states of the Council of Europe.