Ilze Jermacane on Remembrance Day for Victims of the Communist Genocide in Latvia

14 June 2023 Source: Memorial Society  When I was small, maybe eight or nine, I saw a movie, Long Road in the Dunes, and just couldn’t understand why the main…

Continue ReadingIlze Jermacane on Remembrance Day for Victims of the Communist Genocide in Latvia

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Russian authorities violated the UN Convention on Refugees in extraditing Aleksei Kudin, a citizen of Belarus

22 July 2021 The European Court of Human Rights banned Russia from extraditing Kudin, a participant in last year's August protests, to his home country of Belarus where he is…

Continue ReadingMemorial Human Rights Centre: Russian authorities violated the UN Convention on Refugees in extraditing Aleksei Kudin, a citizen of Belarus

This week the ECtHR handed down two judgments in relation to Russia finding violations of Convention Article 10 and Article 2 of Protocol No. 7. The ECtHR also asked Russia not to extradite Aleksei Kudin to Belarus; the Russian authorities nevertheless deported him.

Week-ending 23 July 2021 This week there were two judgments by the European Court of Human Rights in relation to Russia, finding violations of Article 10 (freedom of expression) and…

Continue ReadingThis week the ECtHR handed down two judgments in relation to Russia finding violations of Convention Article 10 and Article 2 of Protocol No. 7. The ECtHR also asked Russia not to extradite Aleksei Kudin to Belarus; the Russian authorities nevertheless deported him.

ECtHR ruling of the week concerns a deportation to Uzbekistan and Russia’s failure to comply with Rule 39 interim measures; ECtHR also announces Navalny poisoning case communicated

Week-ending 5 February 2021 This week the European Court of Human Rights published one judgment with respect to Russia. This case concerned the administrative removal to Uzbekistan of an applicant…

Continue ReadingECtHR ruling of the week concerns a deportation to Uzbekistan and Russia’s failure to comply with Rule 39 interim measures; ECtHR also announces Navalny poisoning case communicated