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Russia expressed displeasure with the UK Friday over British refusal to prosecute exiled business tycoon Boris Berezovsky for his calls to overthrow Russian President Vladimir Putin . Berezovsky, who has been living in the...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Russian authorities were responsible for the deaths of four members of a Chechen family. The court ordered Russia to pay $114,000 to the family of...

A Russian military court convicted four army soldiers in the January 2002 killing of six Chechen civilians Thursday, sentencing them to between 14 and 9 years in prison. The four defendants, three of which remain fugitives and...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Friday ordered Russia to compensate a Chechen woman for the disappearance and alleged killing of her husband in 2000. Applicant Asmart Magomedovna Baysayeva's husband disappeared on...

Rights violations being committed in Central Asia are comparable to abuses perpetrated in the former Soviet Union, according the annual report released Tuesday by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF). The IHF was particularly...

The president-elect of Russia's Chechen Republic accused Russian authorities Friday of torturing Chechen detainees. The allegations by Ramzan Kadyrov came just days after the Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of...

The Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) called on Russia to deal with allegations of torture and abuse in the volatile Chechnya...

Authorities in the volatile Chechnya region of Russia commonly use electrical shocks, forced confessions, and other forms of torture, said Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg...

Oksana Chelysheva : "On 23 January 2007 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision of the Regional Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate our organization, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society. We were...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that two Chechen brothers were tortured by the Russian military during their 6-month detention in 2000 and awarded each brother €35,000 ($57,665) compensation. Adam and Arbi Chitayev,...