Week-ending 22 January 2021 Photo: Human Rights in Ukraine On 18 January 2021 a Moscow court sentenced Azat Miftakhov, a postgraduate student of mathematics, to six years in prison on…
Week-ending 15 January 2021 Photo: Human Rights in Ukraine On 12 January 2021 the Southern Military Regional Court sitting in the city of Rostov-on sentenced Enver Omerov to 18 years,…
Week-ending 8 January 2021 Photo: Human Rights in Ukraine On 7 January 2020 Valentin Vyhivsky spent his seventh Orthodox Christmas in near solitary confinement, thousands of kilometres from his family…
Week-ending 1 January 2020 On 29 December 2020 the Investigative Committee opened a new criminal investigation against Aleksei Navalny on charges of large-scale fraud related to private donations made to…
Week-ending 25 December 2020 Photo: Wikipedia On 25 December 2020 police raided the home of Liubov Sobol, a lawyer who works for Aleksei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (now closed by the…
Week-ending 18 December 2020 Photo: Wikipedia The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has found reasonable grounds for believing war crimes and crimes against humanity have been 'committed…
Week-ending 11 December 2020 Lenur Islyamov Photo Krym.org via Human Rights in Ukraine On 10 December 2020 the Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced Lenur Islyamov, owner of ATR Crimean Tatar…
Week-ending 4 December 2020 Pictured: Sergei Polyakov, Anastasia Polyakova, Dinara Diusekeeva and Gaukhar Bektemirova. Photo: Website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia A court in Omsk convicted four Jehovah's Witnesses on…
Week-ending 27 November 2020 This week a court in Vladimir region refused to release Konstantin Kotov on parole. Konstantin Kotov has been recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of…
Week-ending 20 November 2020 Human Rights Ombudsman in Karelia, Gennady Sarayev, said on 18 November 2020 that Gulag historian Yury Dmitriev may face news charges related to producion of child…