June 2020 - Rights in Russia

Weekly Update week-ending 3 July 2020

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 30, 2020
Post category:Weekly Update
Post comments:0 Comments

https://www.rightsinrussia.org/donate/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/week-ending-3-july-2020/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/podcast-simon-sergei-3-july-2020/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/prokopyeva-2/ Translated by Elizabeth Teague https://www.rightsinrussia.org/shlosberg-2/ Translated by Elizabeth Teague https://www.rightsinrussia.org/kalyapin-4/ Translated by Verity Hemp, Graham Jones, Joanne Reynolds, Nicky Brown, John Tokolish, Matthew Quigley and Simon Cosgrove https://www.rightsinrussia.org/vasilieva-6/ Translated by Mercedes Malcomson,…

The Sheriff. Igor Kalyapin, fighter for social justice

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 30, 2020
Post category:Committee Against Torture / Human Rights Defenders / Igor Kalyapin
Post comments:0 Comments

12 June 2020 By Julia Vishnevetskaya Extracts Source: Radio Svoboda Igor Kalyapin, 52, head of the Committee against Torture, has gone through all the social dramas of post-Soviet Russia: in…

Lev Shlosberg: Testimony in the trial of Svetlana Prokopyeva

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 30, 2020
Post category:Human Rights Defenders / Journalists / Lev Shlosberg / Svetlana Prokopyeva
Post comments:0 Comments

18 June 2020 Lev Shlosberg, human rights defender, public figure, member of the Pskov Regional Assembly, journalist, and laureate of a Moscow Helsinki Group award for human rights Source: Moscow…

Rights in Russia week-ending 3 July 2020

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 29, 2020
Post category:News of the Week
Post comments:0 Comments

https://www.rightsinrussia.org/quote-for-the-week-26/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/person-of-the-week-26/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/civil-society-organisation-of-the-week-26/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/legal-case-of-the-week-26/ https://www.rightsinrussia.org/law-of-the-week-26/ Constitution Russia’s forced referendum Over the past month, the Kremlin’s proposed constitutional referendum has dominated the political agenda in Russia. The proposed changes, among other…

Podcast Simon & Sergei: with Olga Sadovskaya of the Committee Against Torture (Nizhny Novgorod)

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 29, 2020
Post category:Committee Against Torture / Olga Sadovskaya / Olga Sadovskaya Podcast / Podcasts
Post comments:0 Comments

This week our guest is Olga Sadovskaya of the Nizhny Novgorod human rights NGO, Committee against Torture, which is led by Igor Kalyapin. Olga Sadovskaya is the head of the…

Team 29: ❌ Russia Shuts Down and an opening on the team

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 28, 2020
Post category:Rights Groups in Russia / Team 29
Post comments:0 Comments

27 June 2020 Hi. It’s Aleksei Yurtaev. We’ve completed the first season of our Russia Shuts Down podcast. Over seven episodes of the podcast, we explained how our country has…

Quote for the Week. Petr Verzilov jailed for 15 days for allegedly swearing at a police officer: ‘We were in a situation of a classic police provocation.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 28, 2020
Post category:Petr Verzilov / Quote for the Week
Post comments:0 Comments

Week-ending 26 June 2020 Photo by Evgeniy Isaev (Moscow) via Wikipedia Petr Verzilov: 'The description of this situation leaves no doubt that we were in a situation of a classic…

CSO of the Week: Open Russia movement

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 28, 2020
Post category:Civil Society Organisation of the Week / Open Russia civic movement
Post comments:0 Comments

Week-ending 26 June 2020 The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum has highlighted the plight of Anastasia Shevchenko, whose trial for involvement in the Open Russia movement, an unregistered Russian association banned…

Law of the Week: Voting on constitutional amendments begins

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 28, 2020
Post category:Law of the Week
Post comments:0 Comments

Week-ending 26 June 2020 Russians Start Voting On Reforms, Multiple Voting Already An Issue Russians have begun casting ballots in a vote on constitutional reforms that could pave the way…

Person of the Week: Kirill Serebrennikov

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 27, 2020
Post category:Person of the Week
Post comments:0 Comments

Week-ending 26 June 2020 Photo: Wikipedia On 26 June 2020 a Moscow court convicted theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov of fraud and handed him a suspended sentence. Human Rights…