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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Podcast No. 64: Simon & Sergei – with Sergei Golubok

This week our guest on the podcast is Sergei Golubok, a lawyer [advokat] from St. Petersburg. The topics we discuss on the podcast include: how to become a lawyer; lawyers…

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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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Podcast No. 63: Simon & Sergei – with Irina Biriukova

This week our guest on the podcast is Irina Biriukova, a lawyer at the Public Verdict Foundation. The issues we discuss with Irina include: getting started as a lawyer in…

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Lev Ponomarev: The penal colony strikes back

20 February 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, head of the national non-governmental organization For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] "THIS…

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Podcast No. 61: Simon & Sergei – with Danil Beglets

This week our guest on the podcast is Danil Beglets. Danil Beglets is the first defendant in the 'Moscow case' convicted to a real sentence to have been released on…

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Lev Ponomarev: Have they begun jailing the torturers? On the riots at Angarsk Penal Colony No. 15.

4 February 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, head of the national NGO For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] "THIS MESSAGE…

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Lev Ponomarev: A Public Witness to Prison Torture

12 January 2021 By Lev Ponomarev, chair of the nationwide NGO For Human Rights and member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] ‘THIS MESSAGE…

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