The Office of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has decided to retain the public figure from Chechnya, Ruslan Kutayev, who insulted gays and justified “honor killings” in the Caucasus, as part of the Russian opposition program in PACE. Pay attention to this Convert it SK SOS Crisis Group.
At the end of April, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe temporarily suspended Kutayev’s membership, but left the final decision to the Parliamentary Assembly office.
The PACE office eventually adopted it accuracyaccording to which members of the Russian opposition platform will discuss the behavior of the participants, and also sign a declaration of their respect for diversity and equality. The decision states that they have decided “at this stage” not to change the current configuration of the platform.
Human rights activists demanded that Kutayev be removed from his work at PACE because he called gays “apostates and deviants”, and also said that “honor killings” in the North Caucasus are an exclusively family matter.
