Russia: Quash Prosecution Against Rights Lawyer

Russian authorities should immediately drop charges filed against a leading human rights lawyer in Dagestan on July 27, 2011, and bring to justice the police officers who assaulted her.

(Moscow, August 1, 2011) — Russian authorities should immediately drop charges filed against a leading human rights lawyer in Dagestan on July 27, 2011, and bring to justice the police officers who assaulted her, Human Rights Watch said today.

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