Legal Case of the Week: Dutch prosecutors request life sentences for four suspects on trial in absentia for 2014 downing of MH17 over Ukraine

Week-ending 24 December 2021 The aircraft involved, 9M-MRD, pictured in 2011 by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons On 22 December 2021 Dutch prosecutors requested life sentences for…

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Legal Case of the Week: Seven Ingush protest leaders sentenced to long terms of imprisonment on ‘baseless’ charges

Week-ending 17 December 2021 On 15 December 2021 a court in Yessentuki sentenced seven Ingush protest leaders to terms of imprisonment of between seven and a half and nine years.…

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Legal Case of the Week: Supreme Court quashes convictions for the 2009 murders of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova

Week-ending 10 December 2021 Anastasia Baburova Stanislav Markelov On 8 December 2021 the Russian Supreme Court quashed the convictions of Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis handed down in 2011 for…

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Legal Case of the Week: Eight political activists on trial or awaiting trial in Ingushetia for leading a peaceful protest campaign in 2018 and 2019

Week-ending 3 December 2021 Eight political activists are on trial or awaiting trial in Ingushetia (Southern Russia) for leading a peaceful protest campaign in 2018 and 2019. They are facing…

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Legal Case of the Week: Jehovah’s Witness charged with extremism acquitted by court in Vladivostok

Week-ending 26 November 2021 On 22 November 2021 a court in Vladivostok acquitted Dmitry Barmakin, a Jehovah's Witness, of charges of extremism in the first such acquittal for a member…

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Legal Case of the Week: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov and Novaya Gazeta fined under ‘foreign agent’ law

Week-ending 19 November 2021 On 17 November 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov and the newspaper of which he is chief editor, Novaya gazeta, were fined for failing to…

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Legal Case of the Week: Liliya Chanyseva charged with ‘extremism’, remanded in custody

Week-ending 12 November 2021 teamchanysheva / facebook via The Moscow Times This week Liliya Chanysheva, who used to head the support group for Aleksei Navalny in the Bashkortostan region, was…

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Legal Case of the Week. Ivan Safronov faces new charges, placed in solitary confinement

Week-ending 5 November 2021 On 2 November 2021 it became known that Ivan Safronov, held on remand on charges of high treason, has been charged additionally with passing classified information…

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Legal Case of the Week: An arrest warrant issued for former prison inmate who exposed torture

Week-ending 29 October 2021 The Russian Interior Ministry issued the arrest warrant for Syarhey Savelyeu on October 23 without specifying the crime that he is accused of [Source: RFE/RL]. On…

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Legal Case of the Week: Actress who took part in video satirizing police jailed for three months

Week-ending 22 October 2021 Photo: VL.RU Larisa Krivonosova, an actress who took part in a video satirizing the police, has been sentenced to three months in jail. Initially she was…

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