The report on the Russian Federation will be presented by the following organizations: Conscience and Peace Tax, International Federation for Human Rights, International Commissions of Jurists, Committee against Torture, and Human Rights Watch. The discussion will include the issues on discrimination against women and domestic violence, the right to a fair trial by an independent and impartial tribunal, freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of association and assembly.

The Russian Research Center for Human Rights (RRCHR)’s report focuses specifically on issues regarding the rights of soldiers, persons in custody, rights of specific minorities, etc. in its presentation.

Lyudmila Alpern (left), Chief Manager of the Prisons’ Visiting Program of the Russian Research Center for Human Rights (RRCHR), will be present at the review in Geneva. In her presentation she will touch upon specific issues, regarding problems of public control over the places of detention in the Russian Federation (last year a Law “On public control over the places of forced imprisonment” was passed in Russia). In accordance with this Law Public Supervising Committees were organized in more than half of Russia’s regions. Alpern will report on the progress achieved with regard to conditions of detention of persons deprived of their liberty in recent years and share the experience in the sphere of public control over the closed establishments.

The Committee will also consider a number of individual communications in closed meetings during the session.

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