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Russian authorities unlawfully dispersed protests held in support of Bolotnaya Square accused, European Court rules
The European Court of Human Rights has found, in three separate judgments in October,[i] that Russia violated protestors’ freedom of assembly when police made arrests at public gatherings held in support of defendants accused in the Bolotnaya Square case.
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Russian anti-extremist law gave prosecutors “unfettered power” to sanction Novorossiysk human rights defenders
The European Court of Human Rights found that Russia’s anti-extremist legislation failed to safeguard the free expression of two Novorossiysk human rights defenders who were sanctioned following a public protest in 2009.
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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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Russia unlawfully dispersed LGBT+ activists’ protest against “gay propaganda” law
The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that Russia unlawfully interfered with LGBT+ activists’ right to freedom of assembly after they were arrested and convicted for having taken part in a peaceful protest outside the State Duma against the introduction of a "homosexual propaganda” law in 2013.
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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.
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European Court of Human Rights accepts mother’s “prima facie case” of son’s torture and death at the hands of Russian police
Russian police were responsible for the death of a detainee who they claimed had committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window of a police station in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in 2007.
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Dispersal of demonstration commemorating Anna Politkovskaya breached European Convention
The Russian authorities unlawfully dispersed a public demonstration intended to commemorate the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the town of Nazran in 2006.
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Resource | Case Summary | 22 Jun 2020 | By Tim Mosk
Razvozzhayev v. Russia & Ukraine and Udaltsov v. Russia
A case concerning the conviction of two men for organising “mass disorder” in a political rally at Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on 6 May 2012.
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Resource | Case Summary | 19 Jun 2020 | By Tom Kiernan
Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v Russia (No.2)
Khodorkovskiy and Lebedev v Russia (No.2) was the latest in a series of cases brought before the ECtHR by senior executives of YUKOS Oil Company regarding their criminal prosecution in Russia.
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Right to Know in Russia
EHRAC Oak Fellow Dariana Gryaznova explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified dangerous trends relating to the lack of transparency in Russia.