Antoinette Chahine, with the voice of a fighter at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe... No to the death penalty

Human rights ambassador and activist Antoinette Chahine answered an invitation to deliver a lecture and give her testimony at the spring plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, held between April 20 and 24 in Strasbourg.

The meeting opened in the presence of French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and the Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denis Bećirović, with the participation of 46 representatives from member states. Chahine held meetings with a number of European figures concerned with human rights, and conveyed her testimony and message in the struggle to abolish the death penalty to all parts of the world.

The day began with a series of meetings with four prominent European figures involved in the death penalty file, including Guillaume Cano Palomares, head of the secretariat of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights.

Chahine also met with France’s Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe, Pap Ndiaye, and the morning concluded with the opening of the exhibition of the European Association Against the Death Penalty, ECPM.

Later in the afternoon, she took part in a session devoted to discussing the global abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, following the presentation of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights’ 2025 annual report.

The day concluded with a series of meetings on the sidelines of the occasion, including a dinner invitation.