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