I think it would be important to add one thing to this bill. We have already heard arguments regarding the term “prisoner of conscience” or “political prisoner”. It has been proposed to replace it with “human rights defender”. I think it's very important to retain the concept of “prisoner”, as human rights defenders are not necessarily always in prison, and political prisoners or prisoners of conscience are not necessarily always human rights defenders, as Mr. Browder has already said.
In my opinion, there is a way to avoid a situation where people would say that this is an arbitrary term, where they would wonder what it means because there would be different definitions to describe what a political prisoner or a prisoner of conscience is. I had found this information before you asked your question, Mrs. Fortier.
Mr. Chair, I don't know if this is allowed under the committee's rules, but, if possible, I would like to ask you to add to the record of this committee the resolutions that were adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. I'm talking about resolution 1900, which was adopted in 2012. It is published in English and French on the website of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.