Chechen human rights defenders continue to receive training in international lawTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus – NGO representatives from Chechnya were taught how to write applications for filing by Chechen individuals with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. This was the subject of a training workshop for human rights lawyers from Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Dagestan, organized by the International Helsinki Federation on February 16-17 in Nazran.
The workshop’s program was divided into two days. The first day participants received theoretical background about the European Convention on Human Rights; and during the second day they learned how to file written applications for ECHR in compliance with international law requirements, using illustrative examples of specific cases of human rights violations that took place in Chechnya.
Diederick Lohman, director of the Moscow branch of Human Rights Watch, and Krasimir Kanev, chairman of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, were the instructors.
This workshop was one in a series organized under the European Union's TACIS program ’The Legal Protection of Individual Rights in the Russian Federation’,” said Vladimir Weissman of the International Helsinki Federation, one of the organizers of the event.
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