Russian Lawyers, Activists Sound Alarm Over State Pressure On Prominent Defense Attorney
May 03, 2021 15:13 GMT
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When human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko learned that fellow attorney Ivan Pavlov had been detained in Moscow, alarm bells rang. This is a real state of emergency, Moskalenko, who 20 years ago was the first Russian lawyer to speak before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and to win a case from Russia, wrote on
Facebook on April 30. A lot depends for him and for us all on how we act now, Moskalenko wrote. For my part, I am sending the alarm to the headquarters of the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva. And I am asking this global organization to act immediately.