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July 27, 2006. The European Court of Human Rights today held Russia responsible for the illegal detention and summary execution of a young man in Chechnya. The case is the first that the European Court has decided regarding disappearances in Chechnya and it sets important precedents for other disappearance cases from Chechnya. Read more...

July 12, 2006. The European Court of Human Rights will deliver its judgment in the first case concerning disappearances in Chechnya on 27 July, 2006. Read more...

June 16, 2006. The Chechnya Justice Project seeks to hire two part-time lawyers in Chechnya and Ingushetia. Read more...

February 16, 2006. On March 24-26, 2006, the Stitching Russian Justice Initiative hosted the 2nd Training Workshop on European Court of Human Rights Litigation. The workshop was attended by lawyer and human rights defenders from the Republics of the Northern Caucasus who are involved in criminal law practice and interested in bringing cases before the ECtHR. Read more...

December 5, 2005. The European Court of Human Rights had a hearing on merits of the first case regarding forced disappearances in Chechnya on December 8, 2005. The case will set important precedents for future cases regarding forced disappearances in Chechnya. Read more...

October 3, 2005. The Swedish organization Forum for Living History awarded Arsen Sakalov, coordinator for the Chechnya Justice Project, the 2005 Per Anger Prize for his efforts to bring justice to victims of human rights abuse in connection with the conflict in Chechnya. Read more...

January 28, 2005. The European Court announced the first admissibility decision among the projects' cases, in the case Imakayeva v Russia. Read more...

December 8, 2004. The Russian Justice Initiative was awarded the prestigious Human Rights Prize of the French Republic 2004. Read more...