Day: December 22, 2018

Europe threatened Moscow criminal trial over Kadyrov The permanent Council of the OSCE presented the report on human rights violations in Chechnya, prepared in the framework of the initiated against Russia, “Moscow mechanism”, writes “Novaya Gazeta”. Moscow proposed to seriously investigate the actions of the administration and law enforcement agencies of the Republic. Otherwise it will be engaged international experts who will bring the matter to the International criminal court in the Hague. The report refers to illegal detentions and torture of members of the LGBTI community, the author of the document — Professor of international law at the Austrian University of Graz Wolfgang Benedek — points to such facts as clear, compelling, systematic and massive. Persecuted people, according to Benedek, kept in secret prisons, deprived of any legal protection. In some cases, as noted in the report, the Chechen security forces carried out the detention and torture for seeking

The government did not support the introduction of the concept of “criminal misconduct” The Russian government gave a negative opinion on the Supreme court developed a draft law in Russian law introduced the concept of “criminal misconduct”. According to the White house innovation “will entail an additional burden on employees of criminally-Executive system” and may require additional expenditures from the budget. “It should be noted that the proposed changes in part of the exoneration of the perpetrator of a criminal offense are not in conformity with article 52 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, because it does not take into account the interests of victims who, as a result of Commission of the criminal offense caused damage”, — stated in the document (.pdf), signed by Vice-Prime Minister, the head of the government of Konstantin Chuichenko. NewsCrime becomes a misdemeanor Attention to the negative feedback drew the newspaper “Vedomosti”. A

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev was released after 16 days of arrest Moscow. 21 Dec. INTERFAX.RU — the head of the movement “For human rights” Lev Ponomarev on Friday were released after serving administrative detention, he is appointed, for organizing an unsanctioned rally. As the correspondent of “Interfax”, the police officer on duty in the detention center number 1 for the detention of persons arrested in administrative order of the Main Department of interior Ministry in Moscow told reporters that Ponomarev was released at 10:00. Himself a human rights activist on the phone told reporters that at the moment he was released from OVD petty-bourgeois, where he was taken around 8:30 in the morning. “I refused to go. I was taken by force. Now I was thrown to the street with four bags. I go home, then go to the office”, he said. Administrative arrest The Tver court 5 Dec