Speaker details

Challenging the prosecution of anti-war expressions at the Russian Constitutional Court

29 May 2023

Online, Online, England

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Violetta Fitsner

Biography

Lawyer in the Advocacy and Strategic Litigation Team of the human rights project OVD-Info. I focus on freedom of expression, assembly and association, as well as anti-war persecutions in Russia. One of the authors of complaints to the Russian Constitutional Court on Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offences (discrediting the use of Russian armed forces) which is used to suppress dissent about war with Ukraine. Master of International and European Law.

Session

Challenging the prosecution of anti-war expressions at the Russian Constitutional Court

Monday 29 May (1501 - 1559)

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