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On the 27th of 2011 members of Public Supervising Committee on Moscow Region Abdulla Duduev and Israpil Shovkhalov (the editors of first independent North-Caucasian journal will visit Mozhaisk prison for women.

27th of January RRCHR will hold a final conference on a joint project “Prevention of tortures and violent treatment in closed establishments of Russia’. Such issues as concluding the results of the project, experience exchange, discussing perspectives and possibilities of public control in closed establishments of Russia are in the agenda of the meeting.

Discussion of a case in Pavlovsky Foster Home in St.Petersburg and other similar cases.
It is not easy to get to know what in psycho neurological hospitals for enabled people is going on. The tragedy in Pavlovsky Hospital came to light accidentally, owing to volunteers’ activity.

On 19 January 2011, Sovetsky District Court penalized the participants of the Human Rights House Network project “Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers”, human rights defenders Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatiana Stetsura. The court ordered a fine of 100 thousand rubles each for violations to Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

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.