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Russian health authorities promise to reinforce convict medical care - human rights body

16:21 14/10/2020 Russia’s Ministry of Health has drafted recommendations on the improvement of prisoners’ medical treatment for regions following a request from the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council urges law on trade in disinfectants

17:41 06/10/2020 Russia’s Human Rights Council is to present to President Vladimir Putin a report on measures needed to regulate the market of disinfectants, and to engage in the development of a respective law, Chair of the body Valery Fadeyev informs on Tuesday.

Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council to protect digital rights of citizens

14:37 17/09/2020 The Presidential Human Rights Council is to establish a working group on protection of digital rights of Russian citizens.

Russia’s human rights body to monitor September elections

16:05 28/08/2020 The Presidential Council for Human Rights will monitor elections in September.

Russian Human Rights Council member urges Foreign Ministry stand up for Ukrainian activist

12:28 25/08/2020 The case of Ukrainian activist, pedagogue Tatyana Kuzmich, charged with treason, is a next step in elimination of everything Russian in Ukraine, according to member of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council Alexander Brod.

Human Rights Council turns to U.S. Google office over YouTube blocking of Russian media

16:24 18/08/2020 Chair of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev has sent a letter to the U.S. Google office asking to clarify the reasons behind blockings of YouTube channels run by Russian mass media outlets.

Human Rights Council urges Foreign Ministry negotiate release of journalists arrested in Minsk

17:37 10/08/2020 Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council has urged the Foreign Ministry to voice its official protest against arrests of Russian journalists in Belarus and immediately start negotiations on their release.

Human rights body member to apply to Sri Lankan envoy over Russians arrested on island

15:43 06/08/2020 Member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council Standing Commission on International Cooperation in Human Rights Alexander Brod is going to send an application to a Sri Lankan envoy in defense of the rights of Russians arrested on the island on the insect collection allegations.

Russia’s rights activist urges probe into desecration of WW2 memorial in Poland

16:14 05/08/2020 Member of the Russian Presidential Human Rights Council Standing Commission on International Cooperation in Human Rights Alexander Brod believes Russia’s Investigative Committee must react to the desecration of a memorial of Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky in Poland.

Presidential Human Rights Council urges aid to persons facilitating fight against COVID-19

14:49 27/07/2020 The Government needs to think over an extension of support measures to persons facilitating the combat doctors and medical establishments wage against the pandemic, according to members of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council.

Foreigners seek for Russian rights advocates’ help in return of surrogate mothers’ kids

16:21 23/07/2020 Foreign families, who cannot take their surrogate mothers’ children, have applied for help to Russia’s Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Protection of Media Rights monitor reports on violations detected during pandemic

15:01 16/07/2020 Higher incidence of attempts to sanction journalists for allegedly fake news, even in some cases where the respective information was later proved to be true, has been registered amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the press service of the Presidential Council for Human Rights citing the data presented by the Protection of Media Rights monitoring center.

Russia’s human rights body keeps track of ex-journalist Safronov treason case

15:26 08/07/2020 The Presidential Council for Human Rights watches the development of a case against advisor of the Roscosmos state corporation’s CEO and ex-journalist of Kommersant newspaper Ivan Safronov.

Rights advocates urge MPs to reject bill on use of national parks for business purposes

14:06 22/06/2020 Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council has urged the State Duma to reject a bill envisaging that the status of land plots in national parks could be changed. The rights activists believe if approved the document in its present version will bring destruction of special protection national territories.

Presidential Human Rights Council to monitor voting on amendments to Constitution

16:20 09/06/2020 Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council has established an ad hoc working group to monitor the process of voting on the amendments to be introduced in the national Constitution.

Human Rights Council expects thorough probe in attack on Immortal Regiment website

14:59 15/05/2020 Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council hopes that investigation of an incident affecting the online Immortal Regiment event and some other websites commemorating heroes of the Great Patriotic War will be swift, thorough and objective one, according to the body’s Chair Valery Fadeyev.

Russian Journalists’ Union urges to add media to list of industries suffered from pandemic

15:06 12/05/2020 A member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and Chair of the Russian Union of Journalists Vladimir Solovyev states it necessary to include mass media in the list of industries seriously suffered from the coronavirus pandemic.

Russian police report decrease in number of detentions during COVID-19 pandemic

11:07 07/05/2020 At times of the coronavirus pandemic police investigative bodies are oriented to mostly apply non-custodial restrictive measures against persons suspected and accused of non-serious crimes, the press service of the Presidential Council for Human Rights reports citing acting Deputy Interior Minister Nikolay Patapenya.

Public monitoring commissions to be able to monitor mental hospitals – order

10:27 06/05/2020 The Ministry of Healthcare has approved an order of visiting psychiatric hospitals by the members of public monitoring commissions.

Russian rights advocates push for more releases on parole during pandemic

14:34 23/04/2020 Members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights plan to turn to the Supreme Court of Russia with the request to recommend courts to extend the practice of releases on parole during the coronavirus pandemic.

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