Content tagged with Disappearances
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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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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?
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Resource | Training resource | 12 Jul 2017
Human rights violations by the Russian security forces in the North Caucasus
The Court has found Russian State agents responsible for indiscriminate bombing, extra-judicial killings, enforced disappearances and abductions in the North Caucasus in over 250 cases.
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Resource | Case Summary | 12 May 2016 | By Zaineb Hussein
Gaysanova v Russia
The case concerns the disappearance of Zarema Gaysanova, the applicant’s daughter, who at the time was working for the Danish Refugee Council in Grozny.
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European Court questions Russian responsibility in Ingushetia disappearances
European Court requests that the Russian Government submit its observations on two cases of abductions and disappearances in Ingushetia in March 2004.
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European Court: Russian State failed to protect humanitarian worker Zarema Gaysanova’s life
The European Court of Human Rights found that Russian authorities did not take prompt and effective measures to protect Zarema Gaysanova’s right to life, following her disappearance from her home during a security operation.
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European Court invites Russia to submit observations on four disappearance cases from the North Caucasus
On 7 January 2016, the European Court of Human Rights communicated a group of cases relating to the alleged abductions and disappearances of four men, aged between 23 and 25, by State agents in Chechnya and Dagestan between 2007 and 2011.
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International Human Rights Day: Speaking out against enforced disappearances in Chechnya
EHRAC's event on International Human Rights Day, 10 December 2015.
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Film Screening: Barzakh
To mark International Human Rights Day 2015, and the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the first Chechen war, EHRAC and Pushkin House present a screening of Barzakh, a documentary by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicus.
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Ten cases of disappearances in Chechnya communicated to the Russian Government
European Court communicated group of cases relating to alleged abduction of 10 men by State in the Chechnya between 2000 and 2004 to the Russian Government.