Recently, parliamentarians have been subjected to arbitrary imprisonment or other forms of persecution by authoritarian regimes, following elections to which the EU had nonetheless sent an observation mission.
Nesen autoritāri režīmi patvaļīgi turēja ieslodzījumā vai citādi vajāja parlamenta deputātus pat pēc vēlēšanām, uz kurām ES tomēr bija nosūtījusi savu novērošanas misiju.