The Warsaw-based NGO Open Dialogue Foundation today appealed to the European Union and the international community to promote the drafting and adoption of the “Zhanaozen list” (similar to the “Magnitsky list”). It proposes, inter alia, to impose personal sanctions against officials, prosecutors, judges, police officers and politicians responsible for the shooting of a demonstration in […]
At around 18:45 on 10 September 2015, an explosion and fire broke out in the “Ukrainian World” centre at 63, Nowy Świat in Warsaw. The relevant services arrived on the scene: firefighters put out the fire and the police cordoned off the crime scene and began an investigation. No one was injured in the incident. […]
In response to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s public appeal to NGOs and other stakeholders, the Foundation has submitted comments and recommendations to a working draft of Basic Principles and Guidelines on Remedies and Procedures on the Right of Anyone Deprived of Their Liberty to Bring Proceedings Before a Court. In addition to […]
Ruža Tomašić addressed the European Commission with a written statement on the creation of a common European asylum system and called attention to the case of Kazakh activist Muratbek Ketebayev. As noted by a Croatian MEP, support for human rights defenders is one of the priorities of the EU’s foreign policy in the field of […]
Tracking of volunteers, threats and offers of bribes. The Foundation awaits the reaction of the Internal Security Agency. Russian propaganda is hitting the Open Dialogue Foundation, which is fighting for human rights in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, among other places. The Foundation is interested, among other things, in the Russian TV channel Kanal 5, which tried […]
Agnieszka Piasecka, who on a daily basis monitors the implementation of the lustration reform, including the verification of the justice system, participated in a seminar entitled ‘Lustration of Judiciary: Ukrainian and International Practices’. EU experts, including Professor Lorena Bachmaier Winter, an expert from the Council of Europe and a professor of law from the University […]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has prepared a written declaration on Kazakhstani dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov, which has so far been signed by eight members of the organisation, including the chairman of the Bundestag’s human rights committee Frank Schwabe, Pieter Omtzigt, Mailis Reps and Kimmo Sasi. In the written declaration, the signatories […]
President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz has responded to a request sent by the Open Dialogue Foundation regarding the case of film director Oleg Sentsov and Ukrainian activists arrested in Crimea and illegally transferred to Russia, where they were charged with alleged participation in a terrorist group and preparation of terrorist acts. Schulz expressed […]
On 5 March, Alexander Pavlov’s lawyers submitted a document to the Spanish Foreign Ministry complaining about the actions of Kazakhstan’s ambassador to Spain, Bakyt Dyussenbayev. In the letter, the lawyers expressed great concern about the information recently published by the daily El Pais. Among other things, the newspaper wrote about a meeting between the ambassador […]
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