Content tagged with Extra-judicial killings
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Russian state agents failed to provide plausible explanation for killing of 24-year-old Ingush factory worker
The European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) today ruled that Russian state agents were responsible for the arbitrary execution of a young man in Ingushetia in December 2009.
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Family of Georgian man murdered by Abkhazia border guard reiterate Russia’s responsibility for his death
The family of a Georgian man who was murdered at a checkpoint by an Abkhaz ‘border guard’ have maintained Russia’s responsibility for his killing in their reply to observations made by the Russian Government submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on 30 July 2019.
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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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European Court rapidly communicates case of Kist teenager fatally shot by Georgian security forces
The European Court of Human Rights (ECthR) has rapidly communicated the case of a 19-year-old Kist man who was fatally shot in his bedroom by Georgian security forces.
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Family of 19-year-old Kist man Temirlan Machalikashvili fatally shot in his bedroom by state agents seeks justice before the European Court
Temirlan Machalikashvili was shot in the head and hospitalised when State Security Service officers raided his home. He died on 10 January 2018.
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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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Family of Georgian man shot dead by Abkhazia border guard appeals to European Court
Giga Otkhozoria was driving with two acquaintances from Zugdidi in Georgia to Abkhazia to deliver food for a family funeral. One of the ‘border guards’ shot Giga four times: the last and fatal shot was to his head.
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Resource | Training resource | 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 300 cases.
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Resource | Case Summary | 16 Feb 2016 | By Cornelia Klocker
Dalakov v Russia
The applicant, Magomed Dalakov, lives in Karabulak, Ingushetia, and is the uncle of Apti Dalakov, who was killed by security forces in autumn 2007.
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EHRAC and Memorial submission to CoM on Khashiyev group
EHRAC and Memorial sent a submission to the CoM on the implementation of the ‘Khashiyev & Akayeva group’ of cases.