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Amnesty International on racism in Russia in 2010
On May 13, 2011, Amnesty International published its report "Human Rights in the Modern World" , dedicated to the events of 2010.
In the chapter on the Russian Federation, in the section "Racism", the issue of racial violence.
In that This section provides statistics from the SOVA Center on xenophobic attacks in Russia. An example of such an attack is the murder of Judge Edurad Chuvashov in April 2010. In the field of countering the radical nationalism, the report names Vasily Kryvets' sentence for a series of racist murders and the case against N. Tikhonov and E. Khasis, accused of murdering lawyer S. Markelov and journalist A. Baburova. (The verdict was handed down on May 6, 2011).
In addition, under "Freedom of Expression" was declared the topic of misuse anti-extremist legislation. Sources
- Amnesty International Report 2011 // AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL website. 2011. May 13.