Content tagged with North Caucasus
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Remembering Natalia Estemirova
Natalia Estemirova was one of the most outstanding human rights defenders to have worked in Chechnya. She was kidnapped and murdered in 2009. Natalia would now be 63 years old. To this day, those responsible for her murder have neither been found nor prosecuted.
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Russian authorities tortured, forced confessions, and unfairly convicted individuals accused of terrorism offences
The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia in a group of cases concerning ill-treatment, forced confessions, and the unfair convictions of over a dozen individuals suspected of terrorist offences in the North Caucasus region of the country.
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Dagestani domestic violence survivor appeals to European Court of Human Rights over authorities’ failure to protect her
EHRAC has successfully applied to the European Court of Human Rights against Russia on behalf of a Dagestani woman who alleges that the authorities’ failure to act over her complaints of domestic violence continues to place her life in peril.
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EHRAC turns to UN on behalf of families of missing people in Russia’s North Caucasus
EHRAC and the Russian NGO Memorial HRC, after having successfully represented many families of disappeared persons before the European Court of Human Rights, are now also bringing cases to the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances.
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Resource | 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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Resource | 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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Resource | 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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Resource | 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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European Court of Human Rights finds Russia responsible for disappearance and presumed death of Ingush woman
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for the disappearance and presumed death of an Ingush woman who was abducted by state agents in North Ossetia in 2010.
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EHRAC and HRW intervene in Chechnya LGBTI+ crackdown case
EHRAC and Human Rights Watch have filed a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights arguing that a case concerning the alleged abduction and torture of a gay man during a crackdown on LGBTI+ people in Chechnya.