Photo: by David Krikheli 30 October 1974 was the first Day of Political Prisoners in the USSR, an initiative organised by imprisoned Soviet dissidents, led by Kronid Liubarsky, for the recognition of inmates'…
Week-ending 30 October 2020 Article 13.15 of the Russian Code of Administrative Offences: 'Abuse of freedom of mass information' - the so-called 'law on fake news.' The law was used…
Week-ending 30 October 2020 Photo: Caucasian Knot On 27 October 2020 the Investigative Committee refused to initiate a criminal investigation regarding the kidnapping and torture of Salman Tepsurkaev, moderator of…
Week-ending 30 October 2020 Photo: Memorial Human Rights Centre On 29 October 2020 Liublino district court in Moscow found Pavel Rebrovsky guilty of creating an extremist organization and sentenced him…
Week-ending 30 October 2020 The League of Voters was added this week to the list of so-called 'foreign agent' NGOs. Accoкding to the Ministry of Justice's website, the NGO received…
On 31 October 1961 the body of Joseph Stalin, eight years after his death, was removed from the Mausoleum on Red Square where it had lain next to that of…
Natalia Prilutskaya "Aleksandr Shabarchin is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for the exercise of his right to freedom of expression, and he must be immediately and unconditionally released." -…
29 October 2020 By Monique van Ravenstein Monique van Ravenstein reviews Putin's People. How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West by Catherine Belton, William Collins,…
14 October 2020 By Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya Gazeta columnist, member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, winner of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s Human Rights Award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group…
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