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Tag: Human Rights

On the rack over torture (2001)

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

Human Rights, Russia*

Leonard Ternovsky, 1933-2006

“A word already spoken, lives on”, Academician Andrei Sakharov said from exile in the dark days of 1980. “The human … More

Human Rights, Russia*, USSR*

Tatyana Velikanova, 1932-2002

Tatyana Velikanova’s intelligent smiling face came out of the shadows only in 1979 when she was arrested for the most … More

Human Rights, Russia*, USSR*

Larisa Bogoraz (1929-2004)

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

Human Rights, Russia*, USSR*

The Demise of the Russian President’s Pardons Commission (2002)

No heart is more merciful than the tsar’s, the old saying goes. Russian President Vladimir Putin stood that proverb on … More

Human Rights, Russia*

Tajikistan: Deadly Secrets (2002)

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

Amnesty International*, Central Asia*, Human Rights

Uzbekistan in pursuit of refugees (2005)

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

Amnesty International*, Central Asia*, Human Rights

Rough Justice: The law and human rights in the Russian Federation (2003)

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

Amnesty International*, Human Rights, Russia*

Statelessness in Central Asia (2011)

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

Central Asia*, Human Rights

The Freight and the Groove (2000)

When you see what happened to them in the 1990s, the harsh years that some people spent as prisoners in … More

Human Rights, Russia*, USSR*

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