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Roskomnadzor blocks Moscow Helsinki Group website [RBK]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 14, 2023
Post category:Moscow Helsinki Group RBK Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Ukraine War
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8 February 2023 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: RBK] Access to the website of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), the recently liquidated human rights organization, has been restricted in…

Read more about the article Svetlana Astrakhantseva: The state is using legal instruments against us that were intended to help civil society and human rights organizations function, not shut them down

Svetlana Astrakhantseva: The state is using legal instruments against us that were intended to help civil society and human rights organizations function, not shut them down

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 13, 2023
Post category:Moscow Helsinki Group Putin Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Spektr.Press Svetlana Astrakhantseva Ukraine Vladimir Putin War
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8 February 2023 Svetlana Astrakhantseva, member and acting director of the MHG [Moscow Helsinki Group] Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Spektr] The Russian government has blocked the website of the…

Read more about the article ‘Silence is now unacceptable.’ Leonid Nikitinsky on why the statement from former members of the Presidential Council of Human Rights on the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group is so important

‘Silence is now unacceptable.’ Leonid Nikitinsky on why the statement from former members of the Presidential Council of Human Rights on the liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group is so important

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 6, 2023
Post category:Free Space Individuals Journalists Leonid Nikitinsky Moscow Helsinki Group Right of Association
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26 January 2023 Leonid Nikitinsky, columnist for Novaya Gazeta, candidate in legal sciences, Moscow Helsinki Prize laureate Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Свободное пространство] For those in the know, the…

Read more about the article ‘A kind of legal striptease.’ Genri Reznik’s speech in court on the Ministry of Justice’s suit to close down the Moscow Helsinki Group

‘A kind of legal striptease.’ Genri Reznik’s speech in court on the Ministry of Justice’s suit to close down the Moscow Helsinki Group

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 6, 2023
Post category:Advokatskaya ulitsa Genri Reznik Human Rights Lawyers Individuals Lawyers Moscow Helsinki Group Right of Association
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27 January 2023 by Genri Reznik, lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Advokatskaya ulitsa, 27 January 2023] This week, the Moscow Municipal Court liquidated…

Valery Borshchev: Liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group is part of a deliberate policy to destroy the human rights movement

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 3, 2023
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Individuals Moscow Helsinki Group Putin Putinism Right of Association Valery Borshchev Vladimir Putin
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1 February 2023 by Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Собеседник] On 25 January, the Moscow City Court liquidated Russia's oldest human rights…

Reactions to Moscow City Court Judge Mikhail Kazakov’s decision to dissolve the Moscow Helsinki Group

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 2, 2023
Post category:Moscow Helsinki Group Putin Putinism Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Ukraine Vladimir Putin War
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1 Febuary 2023 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: The Moscow city court’s decision to liquidate the Moscow Helsinki Group, the oldest and…

Eva Merkacheva: A court has abolished the Moscow Helsinki Group – the trial will go down in history

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 1, 2023
Post category:Eva Merkacheva Individuals Journalists MK Moscow Helsinki Group Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia
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25 January 2023 by Eva Merkacheva, journalist, rights activist, recipient of a Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: МК] On Wednesday [25 January] in a case brought…

Moscow Helsinki Group and Ministry of Justice meet at Moscow City Court [Kommersant]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 18, 2023
Post category:Kommersant Moscow City Moscow Helsinki Group Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia
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17 January 2023 by Maria Starikova Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Коммерсантъ] Representatives of the Moscow department of the Ministry of Justice and lawyers of the Moscow Helsinki Group met…

Valery Borshchev: Trying to destroy us really is beyond belief

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 17, 2023
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Individuals Moscow Helsinki Group Putin Putinism Right of Association Valery Borshchev
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27 December 2022 by Valery Borshchev, co-chair of Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Собеседник]. CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 95 I don't think…

Valery Paniushkin: It’s impossible to destroy the Moscow Helsinki Group. It isn’t some legal entity, but a spiritual phenomenon.

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 10, 2023
Post category:Individuals Journalists Liudmila Alekseeva Moscow Helsinki Group Putin Putinism Right of Association Samizdat Valery Paniushkin
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23 December 2022 by Valery Paniushkin, journalist Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Spektr] “I hear you have a thing for artichokes, Valera. Well, I bought some to try, and they…