Amnesty International: Following careful evaluation Amnesty International has decided to re-designate Alexei Navalny as a “Prisoner of Conscience”. In February, Amnesty took an internal decision to stop using the “Prisoner of Conscience”…
26 April 2021 By Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Проект] The legal action taken by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office to…
Meduza: In Russia, you don’t have to be a legal entity to be designated as a “foreign agent” — all you need is a pulse. Last December, for the first…
RSF: Haemorrhaging advertisers even since the Russian justice ministry listed it as a “foreign agent,” the news website Meduza has been forced to close bureaux and slash salaries in the…
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Ivan Pavlov of Team 29 30 April 2021 Source: OVD-Info Today our colleague Ivan Pavlov, the head of Team 29, was detained. A search is being conducted in the organisation’s…
RFE/RL: A Russian court has dismissed a case against an RFE/RL correspondent who was charged with the distribution of "false information about the coronavirus" over an article she wrote about…
21 April 2021 Aleksei Vorsin is being prosecuted under the so-called ‘Dadin’ article of the Russian Criminal Code following the protests of 23 January 2021 Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre…
29 April 2021 Gleb Maryasov, a Krasnoyarsk resident and member of the Libertarian Party, has been charged with blocking roads at a protest rally in support of Aleksei Navalny on…