Muslims on Faked Charges

By Yelena RYABININA and Svetlana GANNUSHKINA, The Civic Assistance Committee (2005) In many Russian regions there is currently a concerted … More

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Human Rights “Briefing papers on human rights in the USSR”, published monthly in Philip Spender (ed.), Index on Censorship, UK … More

Valery Abramkin, who has died at 66, was a quiet and remarkably consistent person. In 1980 he went on a … More

MOSCOW – Russia’s first chicken came home to roost at the European Court of Human Rights in late November, when … More

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed on 10 December nearly sixty years ago, and the European Human Rights … More

The Russian investigative journalist, who received an ovation at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005, was shot dead in … More

Tajikistan has had some important dates for its diary since it supported the US-led coalition fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan … More

With the rights activist (and astrophysicist) in the early 1980s, at a human rights gathering, in Portugal perhaps. Marjorie wrote … More

Dissident under the slogan “For Your Freedom and Ours”. “The glory of Soviet science is talked of loudly and at … More

Turkmenistan has been called the Zimbabwe of Central Asia: it is a potentially rich, small country with a very poor … More

Official secrecy surrounds the death penalty in Tajikistan. The picture that Amnesty International has been able to build is incomplete, … More

The events in the eastern city of Andizhan of 12-13 May 2005, resulting in the killing of hundreds of people, … More

Since its birth in 1991, the Russian Federation has introduced substantial reforms to its legal system. This report charts the … More

This 74-page study was part a project which culminated in a Regional Conference on “Prevention and Reduction of Statelessness and … More

“Amnesty group arrives on unprecedented Soviet tour”, UPI 22 March 1989 “Tajikistan: Amnesty Report Attacks Cruel, Random Use Of Death … More