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11 December 2017

ECHR to examine an application concerning the shooting of civilians in 2010

The application Tatayev and others vs the Russian Federation was submitted to the ECHR in 2015 with the help of Justice Initiative. “Wild garlic picking in these districts is a difficult and dangerous job but people had no choice but to take up this occupation for lack of any other livelihood”, said lawyer Tanzila Arsamakova, who works with Justice Initiative. “The applicants and their relatives who were killed all had the necessary permits from the village administration to collect wild garlic in this location. They had been engaged in this work for some time now. The authorities simply had to have known that around 100 civilians were in the forest, but they nonetheless gave the order to fire indiscriminately on the forest from machine guns and grenade launchers”.

29 November 2017

ECHR gives priority communication to application from Ingushetia resident

On November 24 2017, the European Court of Human Rights communicated the application of Ingushetia resident Asya Gubasheva, filed on May 19 2017. Gubasheva’s complaint is about non-enforcement of a court decision giving her custody of her daughter (Article 8) and lack of legal protection (Article 13). The Russian bailiffs’ inaction has meant that Gubasheva has not seen her daughter for more than three years now. The ECHR recognized the mother and her four-year-old daughter as applicants.

21 November 2017

The European Court of Human Rights rules that the Russian Government must pay 24,000 euros to the family of a man who died from tuberculosis in prison

In its ruling on Kaimova and others vs Russia (No 24132/12), the ECHR recognized that the Russian authorities violated their positive obligations under Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights by not protecting Kaimov’s life and not conducting an effective investigation into the circumstances of his death in detention.

10 November 2017

Complaint in the ECHR from Saida Khalikova about remoteness of her place of detention and failure to provide medical assistance

Saida Khalikova was sentenced by the Moscow district military court in 2015 to five years in a general-regime prison colony. She has been in detention since December 2014. During the investigation, she and her mother Raziyat Isambekova came under pressure from Investigative Committee officials. Saida has suffered from a blood disorder for many years now. Lawyers from Justice Initiative sent a request to prison colony 28 and enabled her to undergo an out-patient medical examination. On November 9 2017, Justice Initiative sent to the ECHR an application in which Khalikova and her mother Raziyat Isambekova complain of inadequate medical assistance at prison colony 28 in Volgograd Region.

19 September 2017

Two years have passed since domestic violence victim Maryem Aliyeva’s disappearance

Mukharbek Yevloyev repeatedly threatened Yelizaveta Aliyeva and demanded that she withdraw her complaint to the police about Maryem’s disappearance. In this situation, Yelizaveta was forced to leave Ingushetia together with her children, but she continues the search for Maryem. “The police ignored all of the complaints about domestic violence made by Maryem and Yelizaveta Aliyeva and opened no criminal case against Mukharbek Yevloyev”, said Olga Gnezdilova.