The ICJ presents its submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Russian Federation.
The Working Group on the UPR and the Council should address as a matter of priority the serious violations of human rights, including extra-judicial killings, disappearances, arbitrary, including secret, detention, and torture and other ill-treatment taking place in the context of Russian counter-terrorism operations, in particular in Chechnya, and the widespread impunity for these acts.
Russia-ICJ submission UPR-non-legal submission-2008 (download full submission in PDF)
Russia-UPR16-AdvocacyNote-NonLegalSubmission-2013 (download advocacy note in PDF)
Russia-UPR16-ComparisonChart-NonLegalSubmission-2013 (download comparison with first cycle UPR of Russia)