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NGO SUTYAJNIK: IT'S TIME // 2004 ANNUAL REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Sutyajnik - A Brief Introduction
  • Legal Counselling
  • Representation of Individuals and Organizations in Domestic Courts
  • The Defense of Human Rights in International Forum
  • General projects
  • Sutyajniks teach
  • Sutyajniks are taught
  • Publications
  • In the Media
  • Our Web-site
  • IN CONCLUSION: 2004 IN HIGHLIGHTS
  • Authors
  • This Report in PDF format (121 kb)
  • This Report in Russian
  • The 2003 Report
  • The 2002 Report
  • 3. OUR ACTIVITIES: Representation of Individuals and Organizations in Domestic Courts

    Our staff attorneys represent individuals and organizations in courts of general jurisdiction in Sverdlovsk Oblast (including the cities of Ekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Polevskoy, Berezovsky, Revda, and others), and Tyumen and Chelyabinsk oblasts, as well as in the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Commercial Courts for the Ural District at all levels, and the Charter Court of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

    One of Sutyajnik’s priorities is defending human rights by bringing domestic legislation into conformity with the international and constitutional standards.

    For example, the case of Z family (Z v. State Duma) concerns the right of prisoners and their spouses to have children. Mass media labled the case «My Dad Is In Prison». The fundamental human right of married couples to procreate is the subject of this important case, currently under consideration by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

    In their application to the Constitutional Court a married couple that has been refused conjugal visits («long visits») is challenging provisions of the Russian Criminal Executive Code that prohibit conjugal visits during the initial 10 years of incarceration under a strict regime. Due to the wife’s medical condition, the extended denial of conjugal visits with her incarcerated husband will effectively assure that the couple will never be able to have children.

    The couple claims that this prohibition violates guarantees of the sanctity one’s private and family life guaranteed in the Russian Federation Constitution (Article 23) and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (Article 8).

    The outcome of this case will have a wide reaching impact. Prisoners constitute a significant portion of the Russian population, with 665 Russians in jail per 100,000 population, making Russia the 2d highest per capita prison population in the world (after the USA).

    For description of other cases handled by Sutyajnik see the Russian version of the Report.

     

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