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Participants and partner organisations of the Human Rights House Network project “Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers” are concerned about the recent detention and criminal prosecution of lawyer and journalist Nadezhda Nizovkina and lawyer Tatiana Stetsura.

On 31 December, Buryatian journalist and lawyer Nadezhda Nizovkina and lawyer Tatiana Stetsura were taken into custody following a court decision of the judge Irina Levandovskaya. It happened two hours before the start of a campaign to protect freedom of expression. Before the campaign, which was approved by the local authorities, they were warned by the Prosecutor about inadmissibility of their participation in the ‘extremist action’.

On the 23rd of December, 2010 Russian Research Center for Human Rights will hold a Board Meeting with the aim to consider an application of a newly registered trans-regional organization Center of Caucasian Initiative with the request to integrate the organization into the Center.

International and Russian human rights organizations, including Human Rights Center Memorial, the Civil Rights Defenders and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee have sent a letter to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressing concern with the lack of effective implementation of its resolution 1738 (2010) on Legal remedies for human rights defenders in North Caucasus.

On the 13th of December Independent Psychiatric Association of the Russian Federation and Moscow Helsinki Group held a seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’ within the projects on the protection of people with mental disorders and prevention of tortures in closed establishments of the Russian Federation. More then 40 experts, representatives of regional NGOs visited the event.

On the 13th of December, 2010 Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia (RRCHR) in cooperation with Moscow Helsinki Group (RRCHR) will organize a seminar ‘Human Rights and Psychiatry’ within the projects on the protection of people with mental disorders and prevention of tortures in closed establishments of Russia.

On the 2nd of December, 2010 representatives of Independent Psychiatric of the Russian Federation (IPA) psychiatrists Yuri Savenko and Natalia Spiridonova and Liubov Vinogradova, medical psychologist, in cooperation with representatives of Federal Ombudsman’s Administration visited Moscow Metal Health Facility №5 in connection of large number complaints from the patients of hospital and their relatives.

On the 14 of December in the building of Government of Moscow region new mandates of the Public Supervising Committees will be handing out.

On13th of December Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia in cooperation with Moscow Helsinki Group holds a seminar ‘How to treat people with mental disorders’.