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Articles with tag "Human rights"

see you in court

Russia Takes Ukraine to European Court Over Post-Annexation Grievances

The filing marks Russia's first-ever interstate complaint with the ECHR and includes a slew of offenses it says Ukraine has committed.
fear of prosecution

Russian Legal Group With Navalny Link Disbands

Team 29 is an association of lawyers and journalists fighting for freedom of speech in Russia and worked on high-profile espionage and treason cases.
'time to move on'

Russian Climate Strike Protester Announces Parliamentary Run

Arshak Makichyan said he was motivated by what he calls a worsening human rights situation in Russia.
WEEKEND PROFILE

‘You Have to Read the Signals’: The Human Rights Lawyer Taking On Russia’s Most Sensitive Cases

Pavel Chikov leads the Agora group of more than 200 lawyers in a system with the odds stacked against them.
politics of memory

Kremlin 'Persecutes' Historians to Toe Soviet-Era Line – NGO

"The scale of persecution of history producers in Russia has already reached the threshold of 'crimes against history'," the report said. 
rights recognition

Navalny Dedicates Award to All Political Prisoners in Russia, Belarus

"He wrote that most of them are in a much worse situation compared to me, because they're not as well known or famous," his daughter Daria said.
CONTROVERSIAL THEME

Moscow Cancels Exhibition on Soviet Dissident Sakharov

The Sakharov Center had planned to show photographs of and quotes from the Nobel laureate on the capital’s central streets.
back on the list

Amnesty International Restores Navalny 'Prisoner of Conscience' Status After Controversy

Amnesty had stripped Navalny's "prisoner of conscience" status over his past nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric, a move that sparked backlash.
taboo topic

Rights Groups Urge Russians to Wake Up to Syria Abuses

The report is the first into the Syrian conflict by Russian campaigners and seeks to shed light on victims of Russia's military actions.
shadow army

Reports of Major Abuses by Russian Mercenaries in C. Africa – UN Experts

The alleged abuses include mass summary executions, arbitrary detentions and torture.
fresh measures

EU Approves Sanctions Over Russia, China, Myanmar Abuses

Diplomats said the fresh sanctions on Russia will target individuals behind human rights abuses in the republic of Chechnya.
international condemnation

Countries Slam Russia at UN Over Navalny Case

The historic statement marks the first joint intervention before the United Nations Human Rights Council targeting Russia.
legal barrage

Ukraine Takes Russia to Europe Rights Court Over 'Targeted Assassinations'

The case accuses Russia of carrying out "state-authorized" assassinations "outside a situation of armed conflict."
rights violations

Kiev Case vs. Moscow on Crimea 'Partly Admissible' – Europe Court

The European Court of Human Rights added that it was not ruling on whether the annexation of Crimea itself was illegal.
lengthy sentences

Russia Imprisons 3 Crimean Tatars for Extremism, Plotting to ‘Seize Power’

The Memorial human rights group has recognized the defendants as political prisoners.
Human Rights

Putin Backs Russian Human Rights Court Proposal

Russia creating its own human rights court is seen as a response to ECHR.
opinion Vladimir Slivyak

An Epidemic of Foreign Agents

The proposed new law on 'foreign agents' gives carte blanche to law enforcement officials who subscribe to conspiracy theories.
revoked residence

U.S. Rights Activist Faces Expulsion From Russia

Vanessa Kogan linked the expulsion to her efforts to defend the rights of Russian citizens.
Bias claims

Rights Court Faults Russia Over Physicist's Spying Conviction

Valentin Danilov's case has revived fears of the Soviet-era terror and the authorities' paranoid hunts for traitors among academics.
returning the names

Stalin Victims Commemoration Moves Online Due to Coronavirus

Every Oct. 29, people gather at the former KGB headquarters to read the names, ages and professions of those who died in Stalin’s purges.
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