CSO of the Week: Southern Human Rights Centre
Week-ending 25 September 2020 On 25 September 2020 Memorial Human Rights Centre said that the prosecution of Semyon Simonov, head of the Southern Human Rights Centre, is unlawful and politically…
Quote for the Week. Timur Ibraginov: “I have become a victim of repression merely because I practised my religion.”
Week-ending 25 September 2020 Photo: Krymskaya solidarnost "I am no terrorist or invader, I did not force my way into a foreign land and did not stage a pseudo-referendum. I…
ECtHR Rulings of the Week: Torture and fair trial violations
Week-ending 25 September 2020 This week there were five judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Russia. The rulings found the following violations: excessive length of criminal proceedings…
Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny
Week-ending 25 September 2020 Aleksei Navalny The Guardian, Monday, 21 September 2020: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said in his first blogpost since emerging from a coma that western laboratories had…
Committee Against Torture: European Court of Human Rights takes up case of unexplained disappearnce of Chechnya resident Movsar Umarov
16 September 2020 Source: Committee Against Torture Yesterday, 15 September 2020, lawyers from the Committee against Torture were informed by the European Court of Human Rights that the Court was…
Vyacheslav Bakhmin: “Moscow is now very closely involved in efforts to suppress the nationwide protests in Belarus.”
10 September 2020 Co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Vyacheslav Bakhmin on the situation in Belarus and the Kremlin’s position Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Русская служба «Голоса Америки»] Maria…
Statement by members of the Congress of the Intelligentsia: “Citizens of Belarus, we see you as setting an example worthy of respect and emulation.”
11 September 2020 Pictured: Co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Valery Borshchev Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] Russian citizens who follow political developments in our own country and…
Rights in Russia week-ending 25 September 2020
http://www.rightsinrussia.org/quote-for-the-week-38/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/person-of-the-week-38/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/civil-society-organisation-of-the-week-38/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/legal-case-of-the-week-38/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/law-of-the-week-38/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/european-court-of-human-rights-ruling-of-the-week-38/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/22-september-1999/ http://www.rightsinrussia.org/cosgrove-38/ Other news of the week: Judiciary / Legal cases Meduza, Tuesday, 22 September 2020: A Federal Security Service (FSB) investigator has rejected…
Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia
18 September 2020 A look back at the past week by Simon Cosgrove. Simon is chair of trustees of Rights in Russia, but writes this blog in a personal capacity. This…
Weekly Update week-ending 18 September 2020
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