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On the 15-16 October, the UN Human Rights Committee reviews the Russian Federation during its 97th session in Geneva. The Russian Research Center for Human Rights has submitted a set of “Replies to the list of issues”, which emphasizes some of the most severe human rights problems in the country.

On the 12-30th of October, 2009 UN Human Rights Committee reviews Russia during its 97th session in Geneva. Russian Research Center for Human Rights organizations had submitted to the Committee in advance an NGO report, entitled “Replies to the list of issues” (right), which emphasized the most dire human rights problems in the country.
Lyudmila Alpern, the Chief Manager of Prisons’ Visiting Program of Russian Research Center for Human Rights (RRCHR), will be present at a review in Geneva. In her presentation she will touch upon specific issues, regarding problems of public control over the places of detention in Russia (last year the Law “On public control over the places of forced imprisonment” was passed in Russia). In accordance with the Law in more then half of Russian regions Public Supervising Committees were organized. Alpern will report on the progress achieved with regard to conditions of detention of persons deprived of their liberty for the recent years and share the experience in the sphere of public control over the closed establishments with other participants

Three years have passed since the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Everybody in the world who has a slightest interest in what is happening in the Russian Federation and North Caucasus is aware of this beautiful courageous and woman, talented journalist and a true human right defender.

Anna Politkovskaya was an outstanding person and a courageous journalist. Today it is three years since the prominent human rights activist was shot dead at the entrance of her home in Moscow.

The European Court has found the Russian Federation responsible for the enforced disappearance of a young Chechen man from the village of Mesker-Yurt, the Chechen Republic, Russian Justice Initiative said today.

More then 60 representatives from different NGOs from 42 regions of the Russian Federation took part in the first two-day all-Russia conference of Public Supervising Committees’ members “Formation of a system of public control in Russia”, organized by Moscow Helsinki Group (RRSHR), For Human Rights Movement and charitable Foundation “Social Partnership” (RRSHR) in Moscow on September 2009, 17-18.

Secrecy, corruption, lack of accountability, conflicts of interest, and a shortage of political will are the main obstacles to achieving justice in the unsolved, work-related murders of 17 journalists in the Russian Federation since 2000, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said as it released a new investigative report today.

Moscow Helsinki Group will hold a conference “Formation of system of public control in Russia” as a part of the project “Prevention of tortures through legal support, education and protection”.
Experts, members of regional Supervising Committees on public control over places of forced imprisonment from 40 regions of Russia, representatives of federal government bodies will participate at the conference.
The participants will discuss actual problems of public control and rights protection of the citizens in the places of forced imprisonment.

Reporters without Borders issued an “atlas of freedom of the press and media in the Russian Federation.”