Content tagged with Ill-treatment/death in detention
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News
Russia fails to provide adequate medical care to diabetic detainee for 20 months
The European Court held Russian authorities failed to provide an insulin-dependent diabetic with adequate medical care while in pre-trial detention.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Jan 2017 | By Olga Grygorovska
Barakhoyev v Russia
Sultan Barakhoyev was taken to the police department where he was repeatedly insulted on account of his ethnicity, beaten, punched and kicked.
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Resource | Case Summary | 20 Dec 2016 | By Aigerim Kamidola
Berdzenishvili and others & Dzidzava v Russia
Following a breakdown in diplomatic relations between Russia and Georgia in 2006, the applicants were expelled en masse from Russia.
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2007 abduction of Memorial Chairman and journalists in Ingushetia was committed by Russian State agents
The ECtHR found Russia was responsible for the abduction, beating of and threats to four men in Nazran to report on a protest against abuse of authorities.
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Resource | Case Summary | 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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Russia responsible for “most grave violation” of unlawful arrest and ill-treatment of Sultan Barakhoyev
European Court finds Russia unlawfully arrested and detained Sultan Barakhoyev in “complete negation of fundamentally important guarantees” 10 years ago.
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European Court rules Russia’s detention and deportation of Georgians ten years ago contravened Convention rights
The applicants (or their relatives) were all arrested and held in police stations or detention centres; the Court ruled that the conditions of their “arbitrary and unlawful” detention constituted inhuman and degrading treatment.
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Resource | Case Summary | 17 Mar 2016 | By Caroline MacPherson
Zalyan and others v Armenia
Arayik Zalyan, Razmik Sargsyan and Musa Serobyan were servicemen in the Armenian army and alleged that they had been subjected to torture while detained as suspects for murder.
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Resource | Article | 9 Dec 2016 | By Anahit Simonyan
Domestic violence in Russia, Ukraine and the South Caucasus
In light of governmental inaction the article suggests that domestic violence should now be regarded as a state-sponsored form of torture against women in this region, where patriarchal norms and rules override the rights and freedoms of women formally guaranteed domestically and internationally.
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Resource | Report | 9 Dec 2016 | By Olga Grygorovska
2016 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
In his 2016 Report to the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT), Juan E. Méndez, assessed the applicability of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in international law to the unique experiences of women, girls, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons.