Content tagged with Detention
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EHRAC relies on digital evidence gathered using machine learning in a case on Russian military presence in eastern Ukraine before the European Court of Human Rights
EHRAC commissioned Forensic Architecture to gather and present evidence of Russian military presence in and around Ilovaisk in August 2014.
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Resource | Case Summary | 9 Apr 2019 | By Emily Campbell
Navalnyy v Russia (No. 2)
The applicant, Aleksey Navalnyy, is an anti-corruption campaigner and opposition political activist in Russia. In December 2012, he and his brother were accused of fraud and money laundering in relation to two companies. The applicant was later placed under house arrest.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Sep 2018 | By Roman Kiselyov
Mushegh Saghatelyan v Armenia
Mushegh Saghatelyan, an opposition politician, was unlawfully arrested and detained following the 2008 protests which were violently dispersed on 1 March.
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Russian state agents are responsible for 17 disappearances in 2002-2004 in the North Caucasus
After years of anguish from not knowing what had happened to their loved ones, the families of 17 ‘disappeared’ men from the North Caucasus have finally received a measure of justice today, establishing that the Russian authorities were responsible for their abduction, detention and presumed deaths.
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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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EHRAC instructs Forensic Architecture in case concerning conflict in eastern Ukraine
EHRAC has launched a new partnership with digital investigations agency Forensic Architecture and the Ukrainian Legal Advisory Centre aimed at creating an innovative and comprehensive evidential tool to support efforts to establish legal responsibility for severe human rights violations in the conflict zone.
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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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Resource | Case Summary | 25 Jul 2017 | By Rehab Jaffer
Yankovskiy v Russia
Vyacheslav Yankovskiy was detained in April 2010 on suspicion of murder and injuring two people. He was certified as disabled in 2008.
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Resource | Case Summary | 7 Mar 2017 | By Imogen Churchill
Kibalo v Russia
Mr Kh. was sentenced to 20 years’ in prison in far east Russia. His wife, Natalya Kibalo, requested his transfer to a nearer facility, but it was rejected.
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Abduction, ill-treatment and forced labour in Donbas
Almost 4 years after the conflict in the Donbas began, the European Court seeks answers about what happened to four people detained by armed ‘separatists’.