On 30 July 2020 the Media Rights Defence Centre and the Glasnost Defence Foundation made an official appeal to the Presidential Human Rights Council in the case of journalist Ivan…
3 August 2020 Ivan Pavlov, attorney, head of Team 29, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Коммерсантъ] Everyone who is accused of a crime…
27 July 2020 Svetlana Gannushkina, head of Memorial Human Rights Centre's Migration and Law Network, head of the Civic Assistance Committee, and a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize,…
Pictured: Anna Narinskaya 4 August 2020 A statement by Women's March activists (Varvara Gornostaeva, Olga Grinkrug, Anna Kachurovskaya, Evgenia Lavut, Tatyana Lazareva, Tatyana Malkina, Anna Narinskaya, Yana Troyanova and Maria…
8 August 2020 Hi! This is Elya Pakhomova, head of media and spokesperson for Team 29. This week we told you who were convicted of state treason and espionage in…
https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/week-ending-7-august-2020/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podcast-simon-sergei-7-august-2020/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/ovd-info-165/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/team-29-27/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/svetova-5/ Translated by Anna Bowles, Graham Jones, Simon Cosgrove, Elizabeth Teague and Nathalie Corbett https://www.rightsinrussia.org/anderson/
Compiled by Simon Cosgrove Right to a fair trial On 10 August, 2020, in a post on Telegram, Ukrainian Ombudswoman Liudmyla Denisova said Russia is currently holding 133 Ukrainian citizens on…
10 August 2020 By John Anderson John Anderson reviews David G. Lewis, Russia’s New Authoritarianism: Putin and the Politics of Order (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Earlier this summer, the…
8 August 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
This week our guest is Semyon Simonov, a human rights activist from Sochi in Krasnodar region. For many years, Semyon Simonov has been head of the regional human rights NGO,…