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Human rights court to consider assassinations

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Joshua Rozenberg
Apr 15, 2025
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Russia has been asked by the European Court of Human Rights to respond to allegations that it was responsible for 24 political assassinations or attempted assassinations between 2003 and 2020.1

They include the murder of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 and the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury in 2018. Other victims named in a claim…

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