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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Three Crimean Tatars convicted of sabotage are political prisoners

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:March 27, 2023
Post category:Crimea Crimean Tatars FSB Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Ukraine War
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13 January 2023 Nariman Dzhelyal, Asan Akhtemov and Aziz Akhtemov were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 13 to 17 years. The charges were fabricated, and during the investigation…

Aleksandr Podrabinek: One against the System. Vladimir Kara-Murza at the sharp end of the confrontation

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 14, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Podrabinek Dmitry Gudkov Freedom of Expression FSB Human Rights Defenders Ilya Ponomarev Investigative Committee Journalists Right of Association Treason Undesirable Foreign Organisations Law Vladimir Kara-Murza Vot-Tak.TV
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11 October 2022 by Aleksandr Podrabinek Source: Vot-Tak.TV War unleashes violence. Military personnel are allowed to kill with impunity, law enforcement officials are allowed to hand out punishments without regard…

Ivan Pavlov: Scientists are easy prey for our special services [Present Tense]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:July 7, 2022
Post category:Academics Death in Custody Dmitry Kolker FSB Human Rights Lawyers Individuals Ivan Pavlov Nastoyashchee vremya Politically Motivated Prosecutions Pre-Trial Detention Present Tense Scientists Treason
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1 July 2022 The human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov, a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for human rights, in conversation with Irina Pomaliiskaya of Present Tense about the…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 257: Remove the witnesses

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 13, 2022
Post category:Council of Europe European Court of Human Rights FSB Network Case OVD-Info Rights Groups in Russia Ukraine
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12 June 2022 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Konstantin Lakeev, convicted of kicking an FSB car, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 8, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Assembly FSB Konstantin Lakeev Memorial Human Rights Centre Politically Motivated Prosecutions Right of assembly Rights Groups in Russia
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28 January 2022 Konstantin Lakeev, 18, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison for kicking an FSB car three times at a rally in support of Navalny in…

Law of the Week. Privacy laws used to protect government officials

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 6, 2021
Post category:FSB Law of the Week
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Week-ending 5 November 2021 On 2 November 2021 RFE/RL reported that the Russian authorities had detained three men whom they suspected of illegally obtaining the personal data of Federal Security…

Georgy Satarov on the attack on Memorial: “A future which is beginning before our very eyes […] What we see here is fascism.”

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 22, 2021
Post category:Civil Society Activists FSB Georgy Satarov Individuals International Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Scientists
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15 October 2021 An extract from the programme 2021 broadcast on Ekho Moskvy on 15 October 2021. Presenters: Ksenia Larina and Vitaly Dimarsky Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы]…

Leonid Nikitinsky: The Federal Security Service creates yet another “foreign agent” category – ‘military secret.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 10, 2021
Post category:Foreign Agent Law Freedom of Expression Freedom of Information FSB Journalists Leonid Nikitinsky
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1 October 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society (SPCh), laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for Human…

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Law of the Week: FSB publishes list of information concerning Russia’s military, space agency and security services that ‘can be used against Russia’s security.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 2, 2021
Post category:Foreign Agent Law FSB Law of the Week
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Week-ending 1 October 2021 This week the FSB published a 60-item list of information concerning Russia's military, space agency and security services that, while not classified as state secrets, 'foreign…

Pavel Chikov: What the Russian state is telling society in 2021 – ‘We are strong.’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 17, 2021
Post category:FSB Human Rights Lawyers Judicial System Law Enforcement Pavel Chikov Police Politically Motivated Prosecutions
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4 June 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Forbes] Obviously, the goal is to clean up the political space…