02/08/2011

Chechen Human Rights Lawyer Threatened

"Threats by the police against a lawyer in Chechnya highlight the need for Russian authorities to end the harassment and intimidation of human rights defenders in the republic, Human Rights Watch said today. Supyan Baskhanov, a lawyer who runs the Grozny office of the Committee against Torture, told Human Rights Watch that a senior police officer from Chechnya’s Vedeno district on July 28, 2011, warned him that police authorities were planning to accuse him of collaborating with insurgents and to have his law license revoked..." Continue reading
 

Author organisation: Human Rights Watch

URL Link: http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/08/02/russia-chechen-human-rights-lawyer-threatened