Rights in Russia 12.12.16

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Weekly Update No. 43 (232) 12 December 2016

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Rights in Russia: Week-ending 9 December 2016 [see also attachment]

Rights in Russia: October 2016 [see also attachment]

Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights: October 2016

Person of the Week

Person of the Week: Oksana Sevastidi

Rights Group of the Week

Rights Group of the Week: Team 29

Legal Case of the Week

Legal Case of the Week: Emir-Huseyn Kuku

Comment

Alekseeva, Gontmakher, and Sokolov write to Medinsky and Chaika concerning exhibition about myths of the Second World War

Lev Ponomarev - The Independent Investigation Continues: New Testimony about Torture in Penal Colony 7

Andrei Babushkin on Valery Borshchev: His Mark on History (LiveJournal)

HRO.org in English

Film director Aleksandr Sokurov on the fate of political prisoner Oleg Sentsov

Ever fewer Russians believe that the Russian Constitution protects their rights and freedoms

Members of the Human Rights Council meet with the President

Has the President finally seen what has happened to the judicial system in this country?

Russian authorities wage war in Syria but refuse asylum to Syrian refugees

Rights Groups in Russia

Memorial recognizes video-blogger Sokolovsky as a political prisoner

Memorial recognizes opposition politician and journalist from Naberezhnye Chelny Sergei Eretnov as a political prisoner

Legal Training Centre (St Petersburg): Legal Seminar in St Petersburg, 11-12 November 2016 ‘Working with offenders in the community. Alternative forms of justice’

Legal Training Centre (St Petersburg): Legal Seminars in St Petersburg and Tver, 10-13 October 2016

Quote for the Day

Thorbjørn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe: "The 'Foreign Agents' law [...] is discriminatory, it is regressive and it has a chilling effect on civil society at large"

Andrei Kolesnikov: "The Russian state would prefer its people to live with historical amnesia. [...] I thank Memorial for publishing its database of NKVD executioners so that we can at least know their names"

Andrei Soldatov: 'All this looks very Soviet, and totally misplaced. After all, the opposition protests in 2011-2012 were not organized or led from abroad.'

Ivan Pavlov: ' How could the experts determine their claim that information that everyone could see was a secret?'

Claudia Wagner: 'It is imperative that the government does its LGBT citizens justice and finally puts an end to discrimination and homophobic attacks'

Remember the Date

Remember the Date: 12 December 1993 - Russia adopts a new Constitution by referendum

Remember the Date: 11 December 1994 - the start of the First Chechen War

Remember the Date: 10 December 1948 - adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly

Remember the Date: 8 December 1991 - the end of the Soviet Union

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Our thanks to this week’s translators, including: Anna Bowles, Caroline Elkin, Elizabeth Teague, Frances Robson, Joanne Reynolds, Lindsay Munford, Marian Schwartz, Mary McAuley, Nathalie Corbett and Simon Cosgrove

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