The YABLOKO party demands that Mr.Torshin’s
draft bills limiting the jurisdiction of the European Court
of Human Rights should be either revoked by the author or
declined by the State Duma.
A ban for the Russian judges to apply the decisions of the
European Court without their confirmation by the Constitutional
Court will lead to even greater degradation of the Russian
judicial system. The Constitutional Court can not count on
any trust from the Russian citizens after the statements servile
to the executive authority and voiced by its Chair Valery
Zorkin.
The citizens of Russia who became victims of unjust court
consider the European Court as the last hope to achieve justice.
The ruling United Russia party wants to deprive them of this
hope with the help of Alexander Torshin.
We propose to the United Russia and Alexander Torshin to stop
creating one more motive for people’s hate to this party.
Sergei Mitrokhin,
Chair of the YABLOKO party
See also:
Human
Rights
Russia-EU
Relations
Russian
Legislation Takes Aim At Human Rights Court In Strasbourg.
RFE/RL, June 27, 2011
Picketing
against adoption of the draft law envisaging overriding ruling
of the European Court to be held by the Russian parliament.
Press Release, June 29, 2011.
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