Public Oversight Commissions - Rights in Russia

Federal Penitentiary Service announces new rules for defence of human rights: members of Public Oversight Commissions to become mere onlookers

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 7, 2023
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Individuals Nezavisimaya gazeta Prisons Public Oversight Commissions
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4 June 2023 by Ekaterina Trifonova Source: Nezavisimaya gazeta The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia [FPS] has established a procedure whereby members of Public Oversight Commissions (POCs) may visit penal…

Eva Merkacheva: Dismantling the Public Oversight Commissions – Torture’s supporters are now the public defenders

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 3, 2022
Post category:Civil Society Activists Eva Merkacheva Individuals Journalists MK Moskovsky komsomolets Penitentiary System Prisons Prohibition of Torture Public Oversight Commissions
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28 September 2022 by Eva Merkacheva, MK correspondent, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: MK] After facts of torture in the Saratov prison tuberculosis…

Ilya Shablinsky: “Our law enforcement structures […] no longer feel bound by any restrictions, or even the Constitution.” [Nezavisimaya gazeta]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 20, 2022
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Ilya Shablinsky Individuals Judicial System Legal Experts Nezavisimaya gazeta Penitentiary System Prisons Public Oversight Commissions Sergei Pashin Valery Borshchev
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12 May 2022 by Ekaterina Trifonova, 'Stamped “official use only,” Constitution and laws change: The Russian citizen has been transformed from a subject of the law to an object of…