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Weekly legal news from the EU and RussiaRussian prosecutors seek to ban Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and campaign offices as ‘extremist’
Russian prosecutors have filed a lawsuit with the Moscow City Court on declaring Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (the FBK), Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation, and campaign offices “extremist.”
Source: Meduza
German NGO files legal case against Chechen officials over anti-gay purges
Five officials from the inner circle of Chechnya’s autocratic leader are the subject of a criminal complaint in Germany for crimes against humanity, in a legal attempt to seek justice over the semi-autonomous Russian republic’s anti-gay purges.
Source: The Guardian
Multibillion euro lawsuits derail climate action
An archaic energy treaty is being weaponized by big emitters to sue EU governments who are phasing out fossil fuels. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer funds could be redirected from climate action to corporate coffers.
Source: DW
Poland’s top court hobbles human rights advocate
Poland’s human rights ombudsman — one of the few remaining independent institutions in the country — will have to vacate his post in three months under a ruling issued by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.
Source: Politico
In its latest lurch to the far right, Denmark plans to send some refugees back to Syria
Denmark became the first democratic European nation to tell Syrian refugees originating from Damascus and its surrounding countryside to return to the war-torn nation, which Copenhagen says is safe.
Source: CNN
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Legal Dialogue Journal is an online platform for robust conversations about legal issues for lawyers, law students, grassroots activists, NGOs, and the engaged general public in the European Union and Russia.
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Key developments in public interest law, in your inbox
A monthly brief overview of the key developments in public interest law in the EU and Russia — just the highlights, and exclusively for our subscribers.☛ Here's an example.