Week-ending 7 August 2020 Defendants in the 'Putin effigy' case. From left to right: Aleksandr Shabarchin, Daniil Vasiliev and Aleksandr Kotov. Photo: Aleksandra Semenova/ Novaya gazeta On Friday, 7 August…
Week-ending 31 July 2020 Ivan Pavlov is the lead lawyer currently representing Ivan Safronov, a former journalist who has been arrested on charges of treason. Pavlov is the leader of…
Week-ending 24 July 2020 Yury Dmitriev On Wednesday, 22 July 2020, historian and human rights defender Yury Dmitriev, former head of the Memorial organisation in Karelia who discovered mass graves of…
Week-ending 17 July 2020 Photo: Facebook On Wednesday, 15 July 2020, Human Rights Watch urged the authorities to drop a criminal investigation against human rights defender Semyon Simonov, who is…
Week-ending 10 July 2020 On 7 July 2020 prosecutors asked a court in Petrozavodsk to sentence historian and human rights activist Yury Dmitriev, head of the Memorial organisation in Karelia…
Week-ending 3 July 2020 Photo of David Frenkel: Radio Svoboda Journalist Assaulted at Polling Station During Vote on Putin’s Rule Russian journalist and photographer David Frenkel was injured in an…
Week-ending 26 June 2020 Photo: Wikipedia On 26 June 2020 a Moscow court convicted theatre and film director Kirill Serebrennikov of fraud and handed him a suspended sentence. Human Rights…
Week-ending 19 June 2020 RUSSIAN FEDERATION: PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE MUST BE RELEASED: DENNIS CHRISTENSEN On 23 June, Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen will have a parole hearing at the Lgov District…
Week-ending 12 June 2020 Photo: Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia Another Jehovah’s Witness Gets Lengthy Prison Term In Russia PSKOV, Russia — A court in Russia’s northwestern city of Pskov has…
Week-ending 5 June 2020 Photo: RFE/RL Russia: Siberian shaman who marched against Putin must be immediately released from psychiatric hospital Responding to today’s court decision according to which Aleksandr Gabyshev,…