RJI replies to Russian Government’s claims concerning execution of European Court judgments on the North Caucasus

On 2 September 2015 RJI replied to the Russian Government’s submission to the Committee of Ministers of 24 July 2015, which contained the Government’s most recent Action Plan on the execution of the Aslakhanova judgment and the entire group of Chechen cases in general. On 2 September 2015 RJI replied to the Russian Government’s submission to the Committee of Ministers of 24 July 2015, which contained the Government’s most recent Action ...
Modified: 02/09/2015
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RJI reports on domestic remedies for disappearances in the North Caucasus and on the establishment of remains to the Committee of Ministers

... Grozny. In the first submission, RJI describes its attempt to bring the issue of domestic remedies for disappearances in the North Caucasus to the attention of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation following the entry into force of the Aslakhanova and others v Russia judgment. The European Court found in the Aslakhanova judgment that the non-investigation of disappearances in the North Caucasus resulted from “systemic problems at the national level, for which there is no domestic ...
Modified: 25/08/2015
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ECtHR once again finds Russia responsible for forced disappearances

All the cases concern facts of unlawful detention of applicants’ relatives (seventy males were detained directly from their houses); the detentions were conducted at different times across the Chechen Republic in the period of 2001-2006. Since their detention, the applicants have not been aware of their relatives’ roundabouts and fate. The European Court established that in every case the detention was conducted by Russian law enforcement officers. As a matter of fact, virtually all the detentions...
Modified: 18/09/2014
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