Human Rights Council motions for relaxing the NGO law – reportMembers of the Presidential Human Rights Council have proposed changes to the law on non-profit organizations and foreign agents that resulted in hundreds of public organizations having to undergo inspections and pay fines over the past year.12:44 20.01.2014
Russian prisoner in Guantanamo wants books, tvRavil Mingazov, the only Russian national in the notorious US Guantanamo prison, asked Moscow officials who visited him for Russian-language books, papers and TV.09:18 20.01.2014
Paralyzed fraud convict taken to Moscow hospitalVladimir Topekhin, a paralyzed man sentenced to six years in prison by a Moscow court, has been transferred from the detention facility to a city hospital.15:37 17.01.2014
US lawmakers propose expanding Magnitsky Act to all countriesUS senators John McCain and Ben Cardin have submitted a bill to the US Congress that would potentially broaden the scope of the Magnitsky Act to all countries.12:52 17.01.2014
ECHR finds fatal attempt at Russian psych-ward transport violated rightsThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held Thursday that a Russian couple’s rights were violated in connection with the 2006 death of their son Kirill Shchiborshch following a struggle with police who had been deployed to transport him to a treatment facility.20:07 16.01.2014
ECHR to consider interim measures in case of paralyzed fraud convictThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will soon consider whether to apply interim measures in the case of Vladimir Topekhin, a paralyzed man sentenced to six years in prison by a Moscow court Monday, RAPSI learned from the ECHR press service Wednesday.15:36 15.01.2014
Amnesty International calls to prevent extradition of ex-BTA Bank headAmnesty International appeals to the French authorities to prevent the extradition of fugitive ex-CEO of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov to Russia or Ukraine, according to the NGO’s statement released on Friday.10:26 10.01.2014
Top ten criminal case developments of 2013As far as worldwide crime fighting goes, 2013 has been an epic year. Zeroing in on the ten most important criminal developments of the year is anything but easy. We compromised on the present list of ten cases based on a series of criteria, including global reach and concrete legal impact.10:03 31.12.2013
Russian aluminum plant chief appeals human rights violations in MontenegroRussian national Dmitry Putrubach, former financial director of KAP Aluminum Plant, filed a complaint with the ECHR alleging that his rights have been violated in connection with the proceedings instituted against him in Montenegro on suspicion of large-scale theft.15:15 30.12.2013
Pussy Riot is not after Khodorkovsky’s moneyPardoned Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina aren’t looking for any financial help from the recently freed YUKOS ex-CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the women said during a Dozhd TV channel press conference held Friday.14:50 27.12.2013
Bill on HIV-positive convicts' rights submitted to DumaThe Russian government has submitted to the State Duma a draft law that would equalize condemned HIV-positives in rights with other convicts, the government announced Friday.11:58 27.12.2013
Queen Elizabeth pardons Enigma code-breaker sentenced for homosexualityQueen Elizabeth II on Monday pardoned Alan Turing, the British mathematician who broke the Enigma code, for his conviction on charges of homosexuality 61 years ago.12:22 24.12.2013
ECHR notifies Russia about Pussy Riot’s applicationThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) addressed a series of questions to the parties to a case launched by the newly released Pussy Riot members challenging Russia on the basis of various alleged rights violations associated with their detention and legal process, according to court documents released by the court.17:32 23.12.2013
Alyokhina mulls humanitarian activity after release - attorneyPussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, who was pardoned and released from prison on Monday, plans to engage in human rights activism, her attorney Pyotr Zaikin told the press.12:41 23.12.2013
US execution rates fall by 10% in 2013Although America is stumbling far behind the majority of its counterparts in the international community as far as the death penalty is concerned, matters improved slightly in 2013 as executions fell nearly 10% when compared with 2012, according to a year-end report published by US advocacy group Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) Thursday.16:07 20.12.2013
ECHR prioritizes three more claims from Bolotnaya riot defendantsThe European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) merged and prioritized three applications filed by defendants in the Bolotnaya riot case, attorney Dmitry Agranovsky wrote on his Twitter account on Friday.15:40 20.12.2013
Pre-trial blocking of websites curbs fighting extremism – Human Rights CouncilA bill that would allow the pre-trial blocking of allegedly extremist websites, that is currently being considered in the State Duma, will not help combat extremism and will more likely result in restricting the rights of the public, according to the Presidential Council for Human Rights.17:04 17.12.2013
US Federal Court asserts NSA surveillance likely unconstitutionalA US federal court issued an injunction Monday barring the US government from collecting plaintiffs’ data in accordance with an NSA surveillance program revealed to the world by fugitive NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.14:41 17.12.2013
UK Supreme Court to hear right-to-die argumentThe UK Supreme Court will hear a case brought by two British nationals demanding amendments to the law that would allow them to end their lives under medical supervision, BBC reported on Monday.16:56 16.12.2013
ECHR: Poland grilled on CIA black site allegationsDuring a speech on September 6, 2006, then US President George W. Bush addressed the nation and the families of those killed in the 9/11 terror attacks. He revealed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was in fact running a secret counter-terrorism program without going into much details about it, and declared the program closed. Bush also assured the American people that torture was not used against those suspected of terrorism captured through the CIA program. He rather described the methods used to extract intel as an “alternative set of procedures”.13:14 13.12.2013