Week-ending 16 July 2021 On 12 July 2021 human rights defender Semyon Simonov was convicted by a court in Sochi under the 'foreign agent' law for an unpaid fine imposed…
Week-ending 9 July 2021 Photo of Vladyslav Yesypenko via Human Rights in Ukraine - 'From the first FSB video' On 6 July 2021 a court in Simferopol, Crimea, extended the…
Week-ending 2 July 2021 Source: RFE/RL On 30 June 2021 Blagoveshchensk City Court in Amur region sentenced two Jehovah's Witnesses, Dmitry Golik and Aleksei Berchuk, to prison terms of seven…
Week-ending 25 June 2021 Pussy Riot in 2021. Photo: Wikipedia On 23 June 2021 Aleksandr Sofeev, a member of Pussy Riot, was sentenced to 15 days in jail for 'minor…
Week-ending 18 June 2021 On 17 June a court in Krasnoyarsk region sentenced a Jehovah's Witness (unnamed in the reports) to six years in prison for organising the activities of…
Week-ending 11 June 2021 This week Andrei Pivovarov, former executive director of the Open Russia movement, was charged with failing to provide authorities with information about Open Russia after it…
Week-ending 4 June 2021 Photo of Dmitry Gudkov: Wikipedia On 1 June 2021 Russian opposition politician and former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov was arrested, his dacha was searched. On…
Week-ending 28 May 2021 Yulia Galyamina On 22 May 2021 polilce broke up a meeting of municipal deputies and opposition activists in the city of Veliky Novgorod, detaining two participants…
Week-ending 21 May 2021 YouTube On 19 May 2021 Nikolai Platoshkin, a former diplomat and prominent academic, video blogger and opposition activist designated by Amnesty International as a prisoner of…
Week-ending 14 May 2021 Evgeny Roizman. Source: Wikipedia On 11 May 2021 the former mayor of Ekaterinburg, Evgeny Roizman, was sentenced to nine days in jail for 'organising an unsanctioned…