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People keep disappearing – it is time for Russia to take responsibility
Thousands of enforced disappearances have plagued Russia’s North Caucasus region for more than two decades. This group of cases, which the Court has joined to consider them as a group, questions the disappearances of thirteen people since 2005, last seen in the custody of the police or the secret services.
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270 years in prison: Azerbaijan’s ‘special security’ operation on town of Nardaran
In the evening of 26 November 2015, masked security forces stormed the town of Nardaran, where the Muslim Unity Movement is based. MUM is an unregistered religious group formed in 2015, whose members describe themselves as “non-violent, conservative Shiites” aimed at promoting the role of Islam.
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The ‘Foreign Agents Act’ is stifling independent civil society
Almost six years after the Russian parliament enacted legislation requiring any organisation receiving funding from abroad to register as ‘foreign agents’, EHRAC and Memorial HRC, alongside a consortium of other NGOs, are challenging the Act’s purpose before the European Court.
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Ten years on, families of those killed during 1 March protests in Yerevan need answers
To this day, there remain many unanswered questions about the events of 1 March 2008 and no one has been held responsible for the ten deaths.
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What should happen after the European Court finds a ‘misuse of power’ in criminal proceedings against a leading opposition politician?
Under cover of darkness one night in December 2013, Ivane Merabishvili was hauled from his prison cell and taken to meet two of the highest ranking officials in Georgian law enforcement.
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State authorities must take responsibility for 2011 Kolskaya oil rig disaster
One icy December night in 2011, an oil rig with 67 crew members capsized in the middle of the freezing Sea of Okhotsk. The rig took just 20 minutes to sink, and only 14 of the 67 crew members were rescued. The rig was owned by a subsidiary of oil company Gazprom, which is majority-owned by the Russian government.
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Ukrainian Supreme Court Judge Oleksandr Volkov awarded compensation for 2010 dismissal
The Ukrainian Government has undertaken to pay Mr Volkov 1,430,212.32 UAH (approx. €41,000) for pecuniary damage for his dismissal from the post of Supreme Court Judge.
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Police and prison abuses in Georgia: European Court asked to re-open cases due to failure to investigate
EHRAC and GYLA requested that the European Court of Human Rights re-examine four cases, given the Government’s ongoing failure to investigate.
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Family of Georgian man shot dead by Abkhazia border guard appeals to European Court
Giga Otkhozoria was driving with two acquaintances from Zugdidi in Georgia to Abkhazia to deliver food for a family funeral. One of the ‘border guards’ shot Giga four times: the last and fatal shot was to his head.
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Families of ‘disappeared’ from the North Caucasus appeal to the UN for answers
It is everyone’s worst nightmare - the disappearance of a family member. We would expect the police to help find them. But what if they were ‘disappeared’ by the State authorities themselves? Who can families rely on?