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No referendum required to amend Russia’s Constitution – rights advocate

17:13 17/01/2020 The renewal of the Constitution proposed by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin requires neither a referendum, nor convening of the Constitutional Assembly, a member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights Alexander Brod has stated.

Russian human rights advocates to work on proposals for Constitution amendments

10:51 16/01/2020 Members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights have come into the working group on the development of proposals for amending the Russian Constitution.

Russian human rights body pleased with court ruling in rally activist Radzhabov’s case

11:02 25/12/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights welcomes a ruling to release Samariddin Radzhabov, a defendant in a case over using violence against a police officer during an illegal summer rally held on July 27.

Head of Russia’s human rights body backs Moscow summer riots case rulings

17:10 06/12/2019 Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Valery Fadeyev on Friday supported court rulings in the unauthorized Moscow rally cases.

Judgments in Moscow summer riots case must be adequate – human rights body

16:17 04/12/2019 Court rulings in cases over violence against law enforcement officers during the unauthorized summer rally in Moscow on July 27 must be adequate to what was done, Chair of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Valery Fadeyev told journalists on Wednesday.

Case over police torture of 9 years ago opened in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod

16:40 27/11/2019 A criminal case has been opened in Nizhny Novgorod over alleged putting a man to tortures in the regional anti-extremism police office in 2010, Igor Kalyapin, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and chair of the Committee Against Torture NGO, has told RAPSI.

Russian human rights body presses for adoption of domestic abuse prevention legislation

16:13 25/11/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights deems it necessary to adopt a bill on prevention of domestic violence.

Russian human rights body to discuss stiffening sanctions for threats against judges

15:46 12/11/2019 The Presidium of the Russian Presidential Council for Human Rights will consider a question of toughening punishment for persons threatening judges with threaten with violence.

All captured Far East whales released – Russia's human rights body

10:58 11/11/2019 All orca whales and white whales, which had been illegally captured in the Primorsk Territory of Russia’s Far East, were returned to the high sea, the press service of the Presidential Council for Human Rights reports Monday.

Rights advocate supports bill revoking Russian language exam for Ukrainians, Belarusians

17:22 06/11/2019 A member of the Presidential Council of Human Rights Alexander Brod has favored a bill giving Ukrainians and Belarusians a chance to receive Russian citizenship without a language exam.

Russia’s Civic Chamber, human rights body, charity fund to cooperate on marrow donor issue

12:35 06/11/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights, the Civic Chamber, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation and Rusfond charity fund on Wednesday signed a memorandum on coincidence of wants in marrow donorship.

Human rights authority ready to assist Russian advocate to create new organization

16:29 05/11/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights is ready to render aid to human rights advocate Lev Ponomaryov in founding a new organization.

New Chairman of Human Rights Council appointed in Russia

17:07 21/10/2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an order designating journalist and public figure Valery Fadeyev to the post of Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Russian human rights advocates stand up for doctors prosecuted for medical errors

16:35 04/10/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights has asked Prosecutor General Yury Chaika to pay attention at cases of doctors brought to criminal responsibility for medical malpractice.

Russia’s human rights body seeks to declare businessman Ponomarev’s sentence illegal

11:57 01/10/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights has demanded to declare the 8-year prison sentence given to businessman Konstantin Ponomarev, known for his dispute with IKEA over rented diesel generators, for false denunciation illegal.

Russian penal colony for life convicts inspected by human rights council member

15:34 24/09/2019 A member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Andrey Babushkin has visited with inspection a penal colony for life convicts in the Orenburg Region known as Black Dolphin Prison.

Russia’s human rights advocates turn to Moscow prosecutor over Ustinov case

17:53 23/09/2019 The Presidential Council for Human Rights has asked Moscow Prosecutor Denis Popov to pay attention to the criminal case of actor Pavel Ustinov, who had been earlier found guilty of inflicting bodily harm to law enforcement officer during an unauthorized rally.

Russian human rights advocates welcome release of actor Ustinov from detention

17:00 20/09/2019 Russia’s human rights advocates on Friday welcomed release of actor Pavel Ustinov, who had been earlier found guilty of inflicting bodily harm to law enforcement officer during an unauthorized rally, from detention.

Russia’s human rights body to examine idea on amnesty for minor and female convicts

11:19 12/09/2019 A proposal of children’s ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova to pardon certain inmates including minors and woman having family obligations will be considered by the Presidential Council for Human Rights, according to the advisory body’s chairman Mikhail Fedotov.

Russian human rights advocates check reports on torture of Jehovah’s Witnesses

11:47 15/08/2019 Chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov has met in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area with the Jehovah's Witnesses adepts, who had earlier complained of tortures.

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