Valery Borshchev: Nowadays society is becoming more and more concerned about the situation inside prisons.

11 March 2021 an interview with Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода] Moscow’s Public Oversight Commission (POC) for the defence of…

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Vera Vasilieva: Prison and dignity. On the case of Marina Litvinovich.

12 March 2021 by Vera Vasilieva, an independent journalist, host of Radio Liberty’s “Freedom and Memorial,” and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for Human Rights Source: Moscow Helsinki…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: The explusion of Litvinovich from the remand centres

6 March 2021 by Leonid Nikitinsky, Novaya Gazeta correspondent, member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civil Society (HRC), laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for Human…

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Pavel Chikov: On the retribution against Marina Litvinovich and the final collapse of the institution of public monitoring of prisons

10 March 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: t.me/pchikov] In 2008, public oversight commissions [POCs] began to appear in…

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Moscow POC members sign appeal in support of Marina Litvinovich

7 March 2021 Pictured left: Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, one of the authors of the law on public oversight in the Russian Federation, a former member…

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“The searches are, of course, not carried out gently.” Marina Litvinovich on the conditions of detention at the Sakharovo special detention centre

Photo: Svetlana Vidanova / Novaya Gazeta 10 February 2021 Novaya gazeta's Lilit Sarkisian interviews Marina Litvinovich, member of the Moscow Public Oversight Commission Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета]…

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Marina Litvinovich writes about conditions in pre-trial detention facilities: On Mutual Aid

3 December 2020 By Marina Litvinovich, member of the Public Oversight Commission in Moscow Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] On prominent doctors, lawyers, cooks and other professionals who,…

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