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Appeal to the Presidents of Georgia and the Russian Federation
23.12.2008
An appeal to begin direct negotiations to ensure a real ceasefire, safety for the civilian population, and the possibility for those displaced to return to their homes
European Court of Human Rights demands Aleksanians immediate release from custody
23.12.2008
The Court found that Russia was in violation of four articles of the European Convention on Human Rights, including Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment).
Strasbourg condemns Russia over disappearance of Ruslan Kasumov in Chechnya
19.12.2008
The European Court of Human Rights found violations of the right to life, not only in the fact of Ruslan Kazumovs enforced disappearance, but in the Russian authorities failure to conduct an effective investigation
Fabrication of criminal cases over Islamic extremism
17.12.2008
This appalling example of the methods used by the FSB and law enforcement agencies in Russia to recruit agents or fabricate charges makes the amendments planned to the Russian Criminal Code even more worrying
Russian Duma set to extend “spying” articles in the Criminal Code
16.12.2008
All those whose actions are directed “against the security of the Russian Federation, including its constitutional system, sovereignty, territorial and state integrity” will become traitors and spies in Russia if new amendments to the Criminal Code are passed.
60 years in the wilderness: Why the Universal Declaration of Human Rights doesnt work
15.12.2008
Speech by renowned human rights defender and Head of the Russian “Memorial” Society to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 2008
Russia: heavy-handed methods used to stop opposition protests
14.12.2008
On Sunday police and riot squads detained a large number of opposition activists trying to hold “Marches of those in dissent [marsh niesoglasnych] in Moscow and St. Petersburg
Mounting protest over the seizure of “Memorial” archival material
13.12.2008
Students, staff and graduates of the renowned European University in St. Petersburg have sent an appeal addressed to President Medvedev over the removal of vital and irreplaceable archival material on the Stalinist Terror
Russian neo-Nazis claim responsibility for beheading a Tajik migrant worker
12.12.2008
20-year-old Salekh Azizovs headless body was found by police on 6 December in a Moscow region.forest Human rights defenders are convinced that the authorities are letting radicals see how far they can go
Strasbourg condemns Russia for sending Rustam Muminov back to Uzbekistan to face torture
12.12.2008
This was the first case where Russia went against the Court which had applied Rule 39 which halts any expulsion. It has not been the last
EU presidency makes a statement on raid in “Memorial” office
12.12.2008
The statement said said the raid, days before the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights "sends out a negative signal".
Lawyers allege that Anna Politkovskayas killer worked for the FSB
10.12.2008
Lawyers of the defendants accused of involvement in the journalists murder say that Rustam Makhmudov, the alleged killer, could have hidden from the law with the help of forged documents issued by the State Security Service
Former YUKOS Vice-President Aleksanian may be released on bail
09.12.2008
The Moscow City Court has passed a ruling allowing incurably ill Vasily Aleksanian to be released on bail of 50 million roubles (near 2 million US dollars)
Statement by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group over the attack on “Memorial” in St Petersburg
06.12.2008
Aware of the full danger of the course chosen by the Russian authorities, we condemn their repressive actions and fully endorse the demands of our human rights colleagues in Russia and Belarus to put an immediate stop to the persecution of “Memorial” in St. Petersburg.
European Court of Human Rights finds against Russia in eight cases over Chechnya
05.12.2008
The Court found that the right to life had been violated in the first seven cases (violation of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights);
End Attacks on Independent Civil Society
05.12.2008
The Russian government should immediately investigate a police raid on Memorial, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International both said on Friday
“Memorial” issues statement over the seizure of its office in St Petersburg
04.12.2008
The disks removed in the search by men in masks, armed with police batons, contain databases with biographical information about tens of thousands of victims of Stalins repressions gathered by Memorial over twenty years
Office of “Memorial” in St. Petersburg seized
04.12.2008
The office of the human rights research and information centre “Memorial” is being searched by men in masks and with batons. It is understood that hard discs have been removed from the computer centre
Changes to Russias jury law will be the last nail in the coffin for the justice system
04.12.2008
A statement signed by a number of human rights and civic activists in Russia warns that planned changes to the law taking criminal cases involving “anti-State” crimes out of the jurisdiction of juries will bury all hope of creating a fair and effective justice system in Russia
Human rights defenders critical of the Council of Europes III Regional NGO Congress
03.12.2008
«Recognition of the event as the latest NGO Congress of the Council of Europe would mean that CE structures were supporting the Russian authorities in their approach to civic society and thus strengthening and legitimizing the policy of control over NGOs and restrictions on their independence, used by the authorities of some of the countries of the region”.
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