Content tagged with 2013
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Omar Valibagandov and four other men presumed dead at the hands of Russian state agents
On 4 February 2020, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Russia responsible for the abductions and presumed deaths of five men from Ingushetia, Dagestan and other regions of the North Caucasus. One of the men was Omar Valibagandov, a 37-year-old husband, father and brother who lived and worked in Dagestan.
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EHRAC intervenes in Navalnyy case at European Court—“Politically-motivated proceedings should apply to the totality of the criminal justice process”
EHRAC has intervened in a high-profile case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), brought by the prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalnyy, arguing that political interference in criminal trials should be designated by the Court through the application of the rarely-invoked Article 18 provision of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in conjunction with the right to a fair trial.
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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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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Oct 2019
Gorlov & others v Russia
Permanent CCTV cell monitoring by Russia of prisoners or those held in pre-trial detention breached their rights to respect for their private life and to an effective remedy.
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Four Russian LGBT activists arrested and detained for peacefully protesting “homosexual propaganda law” counter Government’s submissions
Four Russian LGBT activists arrested and detained during peaceful protests against the State Duma’s adoption of a “homosexual propaganda law” have responded to the Government’s arguments before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
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Investigation into disappearance of four men in St Petersburg in 2009 violated European Convention
The European Court of Human Rights ruled in the case Dobriyeva and Others v Russia and found that the investigation into the disappearance of the applicants’ four relatives from St Petersburg in 2009 was ineffective, and therefore violated their right to life under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Resource | Case Summary | 19 Dec 2013
Dobriyeva and Others v Russia
A case summary on the European Court judgment in Dobriyeva and Others v Russia in which four people disappeared in St Petersburg in 2009.
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Council of Europe adopts further decision in Volkov v Ukraine
Yesterday, the Committee of Ministers at the Council of Europe adopted a further decision in the case of Oleksandr Volkov v Ukraine, in which they urge Ukraine to “take rapidly measures to reinstate the applicant in the post of judge at the Supreme Court without further delay”. This follows Mr Volkov and EHRAC’s Jessica Gavron speaking […]
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Law Society Gazette article on ‘Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict’
The Law Society Gazette has published an excellent article on the recent conference in Belfast on ‘Challenging the Oppression of Lawyers in Times of Conflict’ – at which Prof. Philip Leach, Director of EHRAC, participated. He spoke about the North Caucasus republics of Ingushetia, Chechnya and Dagestan: “It is an area where abuses are ‘systemic […]
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Resource | Case Summary | 2 Dec 2013
Alekhina and Others v Russia
A note on the European Court case brought by the founders of a feminist punk rock group ‘Pussy Riot’, formed in 2011 in Moscow, against their arrest and detention by the authorities.