 Source: HRO.org · Strasbourg Court · The Courts · Human rights defenders Human rights defenders have demanded that a new open election be held for the post of Russian judge to the European Court of Human Rights. A report on this issue was published on 25 June 2012 on the website of the Moscow Helsinki Group. On that day it became known that the Russian list of candidates for judge to the European Court of Human Rights would not be considered at the current session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). A Russian judge to the European Court of Human Rights will not be chosen until October. According to the official version, this decision resulted from the withdrawal of one of the three Russian Federation candidates, Supreme Commercial Court judge Liudmila Novoselova. [Read more] |
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