Russia: Protect Human Rights Lawyer

Russia should immediately ensure an end to police harassment of a human rights lawyer in Kabardino-Balkaria and guarantee his safety.

(Moscow) – Russia should immediately ensure an end to police harassment of a human rights lawyer in Kabardino-Balkaria and guarantee his safety, Human Rights Watch said today. A police official explicitly threatened Rustam Matsev, a lawyer with the Memorial Human Rights Center, in connection with a case he is working on.

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