Pavel Chikov on torture in the prison system: “It’s centralised management. These are not just some kind of excesses by those on the ground”

Pavel Chikov 11 October 2021 An extract from 'Polny Albats: Torture in the Prison System.' Pavel Chikov heads the Agora International Human Rights Group; Vladimir Osechkin heads the Gulagu.Net project.…

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Pavel Chikov: The European Court of Human Rights finds a search of a human rights defender’s premises to be obstruction of his professional activities

28 September 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the international human rights group Agora: Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: t.me/pchikov, 28.09.2021]In 2012 The ECtHR has communicated the application of lawyer…

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Rights in Russia interview – with Pavel Chikov, head of Agora International Human Rights Group

Mary Page talks with Pavel Chikov, one of Russia's leading human rights activists and lawyers who heads the Agora International Human Rights Group. A graduate of Kazan State University with…

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Pavel Chikov on the legal aspects of compulsory vaccination: “An application to the ECtHR would be pointless.”

17 June 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group: Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] In connection with the expected decision on compulsory…

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Quote for the Week. Pavel Chikov: “Cases that we won back in the day seem absolutely impossible now. Sometimes it feels like we live in a different country.”

Week-ending 18 June 2021 “It’s been a busy few days...months. [...] In almost all the big cases you read, our team is somehow involved. [...] Cases that we won back…

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Pavel Chikov: What the Russian state is telling society in 2021 – ‘We are strong.’

4 June 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International Human Rights Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Forbes] Obviously, the goal is to clean up the political space…

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Pavel Chikov: Details of the criminal investigation into Dmitry Gudkov and his aunt

1 June 2021 By Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy, 1.06.2021] A criminal investigation into alleged large-scale financial harm…

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Pavel Chikov: How politics became extremism. The evolution of the security forces’ understanding of extremist activities

26 April 2021 By Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora international human rights group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Проект] The legal action taken by the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office to…

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Pavel Chikov: Linguistic experts from the Investigative Committee found incitement to protest, to contact lawyers and other criminal activity in DOXA’s video

14 April 2021 by Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora International human rights group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Telegram] Today in Basmanny district court during a hearing on choosing…

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Life without Justice – Pavel Chikov and Ivan Pavlov on the case of Aleksei Navalny

Pavel Chikov, head of Agora International human rights group Evgeniya Albats, chief editor of The New Times Ivan Pavlov, lawyer, head of Team 29 5 April 2021 An extract from…

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