Human Rights in the World
The ECtHR recognized the law on foreign agents as violating human rights OVD News with HRWF (14.06.2022) – https://bit.ly/3mQ9NJP – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recognized the law on foreign agents as a violation of human rights. This...
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Death penalty to be abolished in Malaysia Following a debate that began in 2018, Malaysia’s cabinet agreed to reform the country’s criminal justice system. About 73 per cent of people on death row were convicted for drug offences. Other Southeast Asian countries...
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Repression of anti-war and other activists HRWF (13.06.2022) – Repression of Russian anti-war and other civic activists has been going on unabated all over Russia since the aggression against and the invasion of Ukraine. The official accusation of being a...
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Russian parliament votes to break with European Court of Human Rights Reuters (07.06.2022) – https://reut.rs/3O12ACg – Russia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a pair of bills ending the European Court of Human Rights’ jurisdiction in the...
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Moldova Between Aggression and Accommodation A brief report by the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe (FOREF) and Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) based on a fact-finding mission in Moldova in mid-May 2022 Introduction Post-Soviet Moldova Transnistria:...
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Russian soldiers given long sentences in Ukraine By Halya Coynash KHRPG (01.06.2022) – https://bit.ly/3Q0UfjN – In the second sentence for war crimes since Russia began its total invasion of Ukraine, two young Russian contract soldiers have received...