30 December 2019 Igor Kalyapin, head of the human rights organisation Committee against Torture, talks about the main difference between human rights activists and lawyers, about his sense of duty…
22 February 2020OVD-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…
11 February 2020 Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Yulia Tsvetkova is being prosecuted because of her public stance and feminist views.Feminist and artist Yulia Svetkova, who lives in Komsomolsk-na-Amur, has…
11 February 2020 Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Seven people have been convicted by a military court in Penza in a case involving fabrication of evidence and torture. What does this…
15 February 2020 Hi, my name is Lera VetoshkinaI’m a lawyer with Team 29, and this is my first message to you.At the start of this week, I found myself…
15 February 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…
31 January 2020 On trial under terrorism articles of the Russian Criminal Code, they have not been charged with terrorism Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial Human Rights Centre believes the…
28 January 2020If convicted, Nizamov faces a possible life sentence Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Eduard Nizamov has been charged with organising the activities of a terrorist group (Article 205.5, Section…
8 February 2020 Hi, it’s Natasha Korchenkova Nothing catastrophic happened this week (by Russian standards, at least). Everyone was talking about the Coronavirus and the amendments…
8 February 2020OVD-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…