MP Kostis Efstathiou participated today in a meeting of the Committee on Legal and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
In his intervention on the issue of combating and preventing the excessive and unjustified use of force by law enforcement authorities, the Cypriot MP pointed out that the relevant scattered legislation should be codified at European level in order to facilitate the process of proving the commission of offences and bringing offenders before national courts.
Moreover, when discussing the issue of the use of seized and confiscated assets resulting from criminal activities, Mr Efstathiou stressed that these assets could be used through the creation of a special European fund for projects of common interest, such as support for medical or educational institutions in African and Asian countries.
Finally, Mr Efstathiou, in his intervention in a debate on the legal aspects and human rights violations arising from Russia's aggression in Ukraine, said that under no circumstances can Russia be left in the dark about its invasion of Ukraine. Nor, he stressed, should any attempts to create de facto separatist entities be tolerated, as Turkey has done by invading and continuing to occupy part of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus.
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