April 11, 2013 - Commissioner for Human Rights

Muižnieks concerned by Russia’s judicial system and ‘foreign’ NGO law

Human rights commissioner Nils Muižnieks has expressed concerns about weaknesses in Russia’s judicial system and the impact of the country’s ‘foreign’ NGO law.

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April 4, 2013 - European Convention of Human Rights

Judges back Russian lawyer in ‘Khodorkovskiy’ defamation case

The court held in particular that the Russian court which had found the president of the Moscow City Bar liable for defamation had failed to perform any balancing exercise between the need to protect the plaintiffs’ reputation and the public interest.

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March 28, 2013 - European Convention of Human Rights

Novaya Gazeta newspaper fails in freedom of expression court challenge to Russia

Applicants Novaya Gazeta Editorial and Publishing House, which publishes the daily national newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and G. Borodyanskiy, a regional journalist of the newspaper have failed in a bid to convince judges that Russia breached their right to free expression.

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February 4, 2013 - European Convention of Human Rights

World War Two Katyń massacre set for court hearing

Human rights judges will hear legal arguments later this month concerning the adequacy of the investigation by the Russian authorities into the 1940 Katyń massacre.

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January 24, 2013 - Society

Assembly expert dismayed by violent disruption of Russian LGBT protests

“I was outraged to learn that a peaceful, authorised demonstration in support of freedom of expression and against a bill to prohibit so-called ‘homosexual propaganda’ was violently disrupted in the city of Voronezh in southwest Russia”, said Håkon Haugli, the assembly’s rapporteur on the rights of LGBT people.

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