Content tagged with Ill-treatment/death in detention
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Georgian prisons must provide detainees with effective medical treatment
Ten months after Rusiko Maisuradze’s son started his prison sentence, his family noticed he was unwell. He was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and died five months later. The European Court ruled that the Georgian prison authorities deprived him of effective medication for a prolonged period of time.
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European Court finds Russia responsible for torture and death of Kabardino-Balkar man
The European Court found that Russian law enforcement authorities were responsible for the 2004 abduction, torture and resultant death of Rasul Tsakoyev.
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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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Resource | Case Summary | 12 Dec 2017 | By Giulio Pagano
MM v Russia
The applicant was arrested in January 2005 on charges of murder, to which he confessed following alleged death threats and threats of ill-treatment by police officers. While in pre-trial detention, he was held in overcrowded, insanitary and degrading cells, with less than four metres squared of space.
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Resource | Training resource | 1 Aug 2018
Requests for interim measures before the European Court of Human Rights
A package of resources on applying for emergency interventions under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court.
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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 | 14 Mar 2017 | By Olga Grygorovska
Orlov and others v Russia
Oleg Orlov, the chairman of Memorial Human Rights Centre, was abducted in Ingushetia in 2007 along with three REN-TV journalists.
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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’.
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Disclosure of HIV status of Russian prisoner by victim’s sister breaches European Convention
The ECHR ruled disclosure of sensitive medical information (e.g. HIV status) breaches government obligation to ensure right to respect for private life.
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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.