Jan 15, 2018 | Новости, Статьи
МКЮ обеспокоена заявлениями о том, что недавний арест и содержание под стражей главы чеченского отделения российской правозащитной организации «Мемориал» Оюба Титиева проводились в качестве возмездия за его правозащитную деятельность.
МКЮ особенно обеспокоена более поздними сообщениями о том, что членам семьи Оюба Титиева пришлось покинуть Чечню по соображениям безопасности после угроз.
МКЮ призывает федеральные и местные власти России провести незамедлительное, тщательное и независимое расследование утверждений о том, что уголовные дела против Оюба Титиева были сфабрикованы полицией.
Оюба Титиева следует немедленно освободить в ожидании результатов этого расследования, и необходимо принять меры для защиты его безопасности и безопасности его семьи.
9 января 2018 года, в 10.30, согласно официальному заявлению Министерства внутренних дел Чечни, автомобиль Оюба Титиева был остановлен возле города Курчалой, чтобы проверить его документы.
Во время обыска его машины был найден пластиковый пакет с примерно 180 граммами вещества, идентифицированного как марихуана.
Титиеву было предъявлено обвинение в владении большого количества наркотиков по статье 228 Уголовного кодекса Российской Федерации. Однако он заявил, что наркотики ему подбросили, и подал жалобу в прокуратуру, чтобы начать расследование этих утверждений.
Оюб Титиев, глава «Мемориала» в Чечне, является одним из немногих правозащитников, которые продолжают свою деятельность в Чечне, несмотря на значительные препятствия и угрозы.
Он занял эту позицию после убийства бывшего главы «Мемориала» в Чечне Натальи Эстемировой в 2009 году.
В соответствии со статьей 2 (а) Декларации о правозащитниках (Декларация о праве и обязанности отдельных лиц, групп и органов общества поощрять и защищать общепризнанные права человека и основные свободы) правозащитники имеют право проводить работу индивидуально и совместно с другими в области прав человека.
В соответствии с той же Декларацией государства обязаны принимать все необходимые меры для обеспечения защиты всех людей от любого насилия, угроз, возмездия, неблагоприятной дискриминации, давления или любых других произвольных действий в результате его законной деятельности как защитника прав человека.
Угрозы насилия и фальсификация доказательств государственными должностными лицами представляют собой преступления, предусмотренные Уголовным кодексом РФ. Основание по фактам, ложно установленным полицией или другими государственными субъектами, в уголовном судопроизводстве, нарушает международные права человека, включая гарантии справедливого судебного разбирательства в соответствии с Пактом ООН о гражданских и политических правах и Европейской конвенцией о правах человека.
Нападения на правозащитников, работающих в крайне сложных условиях прав человека, таких как Чечня, или нападения на членов их семей, оказывают повреждающее влияние на работу по защите прав человека. Если дальнейшие подобные нападения должны быть предотвращены, лица, ответственные за них, должны быть привлечены к ответственности через справедливую процедуру, подчеркнула МКЮ.
Jan 11, 2018 | Advocacy, Cases, Legal submissions
The ICJ responded today to the observations of the Czech Government on the merits of the collective complaint brought against it earlier last year by the ICJ and Forum for Human Rights.
The complaint to the European Committee of Social Rights (ICJ v. the Czech Republic, No. 148/2017) argues that the Czech Republic fails to ensure equal legal protection and participation of children below the age of criminal responsibility in the pre-trial stage of juvenile justice procedures.
The ICJ and Forum for Human Rights reinforced the complaint, relying on Article 17 of the Social Charter, in relation to the State party’s failure to ensure that children below the age of criminal responsibility but recognised as having infringed the penal law are treated in a manner consistent with the promotion of the child’s sense of dignity and worth, which reinforces the child’s respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of others and which takes into account the child’s age and the desirability of promoting the child’s reintegration and the child’s assuming a constructive role in society.
Europe-ECSR-ICJvCzechRepublic-ChildrenJustice-ICJresponse1-2018-ENG (download the ICJ reply)
Jan 8, 2018 | Advocacy, Cases, Legal submissions, News
The ICJ and other organizations have intervened today before the European Court of Human Rights challenging expulsions of asylum seekers from Hungary to Serbia.
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) and the Dutch Council for Refugees have submitted today a third party intervention before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ilias and Ahmed v. Hungary.
The case challenges the systematic practice by the Hungarian authorities to send back to Serbia foreign nationals asking for asylum under the pretention that Serbia is a safe third country in which to ask for international protection.
The intervening organizations have argued before the Court that:
- a removal that exposes an applicant to the risk of refoulement and deprives them of protections under international and EU law, is prohibited regardless of whether the decision was taken on the basis of the safe third country concept or the country was included in a “safe third country” list.
- International law requires, inter alia, a rigorous scrutiny of the applicant’s arguable claim of potential prohibited treatment, access to an effective remedy following a negative decision, and access to the rights under the 1951 Refugee Convention.
- Application of the safe third country concept for EU Member States is contingent on the applicant being admitted to the territory and having effective access to a fair asylum procedure in the safe third country
- An assessment of whether restrictions on the freedom of movement of migrants, imposed in a border or international zone, amount to deprivation of liberty under Article 5 ECHR must be based on the impact of these measures on the individuals concerned.
Hungary-ECtHR-amicusbrief-cases-Ilias&Ahmed-ICJ&others-2018-ENG (download the third party intervention)
Background
Ilias Ilias and Ali Ahmed, both Bangladeshi nationals, fled their home country in arrived at the Hungarian-Serbian border on 15 September 2015 after having briefly crossed through Serbia during their trip.
Having asked immediately for asylum in Hungary, they were confined for days in a transit zone, a ” a confined area of some 110 square metres, part of the transit zone, surrounded by fence and guarded by officers”.
Their applications were rejected on the very same day of their application on the grounds that they could have asked for asylum in Serbia, considered by Hungary a safe third country, and appeals were rejected.
They were removed to Serbia on 8 October 2015.
Dec 11, 2017 | News
Discussions on the future of the European human rights system should focus on effective national implementation of human rights obligations and should protect the Court from undue political pressure, the ICJ and other NGOs said today.
The ICJ and other human rights NGOs that participated in the High-Level Expert Conference ‘2019 and Beyond: Taking Stock and Moving Forward from the Interlaken Process’, held in Kokkedal, Denmark from 22-24 November 2017, commended the Danish Chairmanship of the Council of Europe for its stated commitment to involving civil society throughout the process leading up to the adoption of a political Declaration on the European Convention on Human Rights’ system in April 2018.
The NGOs believe that the anticipated Copenhagen Declaration should emphasize:
- The need for enhanced measures at the national level to prevent and address violations of the Convention rights – in particular to remedy systemic and institutional problems – and to implement the Court’s judgments.
- The need for the Committee of Ministers to take more effective action to support and ensure thorough and prompt execution of judgments, through individual and general measures.
- The importance of nominating the most- qualified candidates as judges of the Court.
- That it is a fundamental principle of the rule of law that the Court should be free from political interference.
The NGOs urged the Danish Chairmanship and all Member States to refrain from any reforms that would place undue pressure on the Court in its interpretation and application of the Convention. Any undermining of established jurisprudential principles, such as the dynamic interpretation of the Convention, must be rejected.
Europe-NGO statement on ECHR reform-News-web story-2017-ENG (full story in PDF)
Dec 9, 2017 | Agendas, Events, News
Today begins in Izmir (Turkey) a two-day training for lawyers and CSO practitioners representing and working with migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers.
This event is organized by ICJ, in cooperation with its partners Refugee Rights Turkey, the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE), Mülteci-Der (MD) and ICJ-EI, as part of the EU co-financed project Fostering Access to Rights for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Turkey.
30 lawyers and civil society practitioners – representing nine different bar associations and relevant organisations from the Istanbul area and other nearby key migration and asylum locations – are taking part in the training on 9 and 10 December.
The training aims to update lawyers and CSOs on the international and national law on the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers in order to be effective in their work at both the national and international levels. It aims at an effective implementation of the Turkish legal framework on asylum and migration.
The main thematic areas to be discussed will be the principle of non-refoulement, international protection, detention and access to economic, social and cultural rights.
The training will use as a basis the draft training materials prepared by the ICJ and its partners (to be published an the end of 2019) and, among other sources, the ICJ Practitioners Guide no. 6: Migration and International Human Rights Law.
The project “Fostering Access to Rights for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in Turkey” is funded by the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) of the European Union.
Turkey-Training-Izmir-MigrationAsylum-Agenda-2017-tur-eng (download the agenda in Turkish and English)
