Content tagged with 2009
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Resource | Case Summary | 4 Nov 2019 | By Ben McGowan
Magnitsky & others v Russia
Russia was responsible for the 2009 death of jailed whistle-blower Sergei Magnitsky, whose case inspired new laws introducing sanctions mechanisms in the US, UK, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
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Russia responsible for the abduction and presumed deaths of five young men in the North Caucasus between 2007-2011
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 8 October 2019 found Russia responsible for the disappearances and deaths of five men from Chechnya, Ingushetia and other regions of the North Caucasus between 2007 and 2011.
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019 | By Kristin Lyaskova
Mihalache v Romania [GC]
A man who was administratively fined and then criminally convicted and sentenced for refusing to undergo a blood test following a positive breathalyser test was tried twice for the same offence.
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Resource | Article | 1 Dec 2009 | By Tatiana Chernikova
Nalchik: non-investigation of allegations of torture
Tatiana Chernikova discusses the experience of the defendants in the Nalchik case
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Resource | Article | 1 Dec 2009
UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review – Russian Federation
An outline of the UN HRC's periodic review of the human rights situation in Russia
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Resource | Article | 1 Dec 2009 | By Ketevan Abashidze
Interception of telephone communications in Georgia: points of concern
Ketevan Abashidze discusses the Georgian law on phone tapping in light of the ECtHR ruling on Moldova
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Resource | Article | 1 Dec 2009 | By Furkat Tishaev
The Georgia-Russia conflict: testing the International Court of Justice
Furkat Tishaev looks at the merits of Georgian application to the ICJ under the CERD
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Resource | EHRAC Annual Report | 1 Dec 2009
EHRAC Annual Report 2009
EHRAC's 2009 Annual Report is now available online.
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Resource | Article | 1 Dec 2009
Allegations of politically-motivated abuses of the criminal justice system in CoE member states
This article outlines the findings of a PACE report into abuses of the criminal justice system in Russia
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Resource | EHRAC Bulletin | 1 Dec 2009
EHRAC Bulletin Winter 2009
Issue 12 of the EHRAC Bulletin is now available online. Please click the link below to read the full issue. Forty years on from the Stonewall riots in New York and only ten years after homosexuality was removed from the list of mental disorders in the Russian Federation, Nikolai Alekseev (Head of LGBT Human Rights Project, GayRussia.Ru and Moscow Pride Chief […]