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Article | 14 Dec 2020
Rashid Ozdoyev & Tamerlan Tsechoyev
EHRAC submitted the case of Rashid Ozdoyev to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in July 2020, and is also preparing to submit the case of Tamerlan Tsechoyev.
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Article | 14 Dec 2020
Timur Yandiev
EHRAC submitted Timur Yandiev’s case to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in December 2019.
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Article | 14 Dec 2020
Bashir Mutsolgov
EHRAC submitted Bashir Mutsolgov’s case to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in 2020.
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Article | 14 Dec 2020
Adam Medov
EHRAC submitted Adam Medov’s case to the UN’s Working Group on Enforced Disappearances in June 2020.
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Article | 16 Nov 2020 | By Toby Collis
Note on International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) report/roundtable on the state of the independence of the legal profession in Ukraine
The situation of the security and independence of lawyers in Ukraine, and the obstacles to represent clients on human rights claims, presents the sadly not uncommon disjuncture between high standards on paper, and serious concerns in reality.
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Article | 19 Dec 2018 | By Olena Shevchenko
Standing up in the face of discrimination and hate crime
Olena Shevchenko (Insight, Ukraine) explains the difficulties she has faced in the last year as one of the most high-profile activists on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity or expression in Ukraine, particularly following the International Women’s Day march in Kyiv on 8 March.
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Article | 25 Jul 2018 | By Joyce Man
Positive developments in Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: The Strasbourg Effect
In Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: the Strasbourg Effect (Lauri Mälksoo and Wolfgang Benedek (eds.)), the authors explore the various ways in which the European Court has had a beneficial impact in Russia, summarised in our leading article by former intern Joyce Man.
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Article | 25 Jul 2018 | By Cornelia Klocker
Collective punishment in Chechnya
Cornelia Klocker (PhD Candidate, Birkbeck, University of London) examines the concept and practice of collective punishment in this context, and raises the question of whether it is time for the Council of Europe to act in the wake of yet another spate of reprisals against vilified groups in Chechnya.
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Article | 25 Jul 2018 | By Emin Abbasov
What now for lawyers in Azerbaijan?
Turning to domestic matters, Emin Abbasov, one of only a handful of human rights lawyers who dares to practise in Azerbaijan following a tightening of restrictions on the legal profession, asks what lies ahead for the Azerbaijani legal profession in light of the most recent package of repressive legislative reforms.
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Article | 1 Dec 2017 | By Joyce Man
Russia dials up phone surveillance, overshadowing improvements in the region
In the Soviet era, wiretapping extended State's watchful gaze into the private lives of many. Despite reform surveillance remains commonplace in the region.