Hate crimes in Russia rose 13 percent in 2007 over 2006, but police have done little to stop attacks, according to a Tuesday report by the SOVA Center rights group. Deputy Director Galina Kozhevnikova...
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Ukraine becomes first Eastern European country to offer prisons to ICTY convicts
Ukraine became the first Eastern European country to offer its jails to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Tuesday, as the two bodies signed an enforcement of...
Hate crimes are on the rise throughout Europe , rights watchdog Human Rights First reported Thursday in a study examining recent hate crimes in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and the United...
Absolute disregard for law: liquidating the Russian Chechen Friendship Society
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...
US Chief Immigration Judge Michael Creppy ruled Wednesday that John Demjanjuk , a retired auto worker living in Cleveland who is accused of having been a Nazi prison camp guard, should be deported to his native...
In official remarks prior to her departure for Europe Monday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the US government's efforts to protect its citizens have been "misunderstood." Noting European officials' concerns about the CIA's use of...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, recently imprisoned for tax fraud after a long and politically-controversial trial, says his client's case is a call to the West to...