Week-ending 24 December 2021 On 19 December 2021 Oleg Kashintsev, a retired Moscow police officer, was arrested after holding a single-person protest in Red Square to demand the release of…
Week-ending 17 December 2021 Image of Maria Alekhina and Liusya Shtein: Kasparov.ru On 17 December 2021 a Moscow district court jailed Maria Alekhina and Liusya Shtein, both Pussy Riot activists,…
Week-ending 10 December 2021 On 9 December a district court in Vladimir region held a preliminary hearing concerning prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny’s lawsuit against the administration of the prison where…
Week-ending 3 December 2021 Amnesty International has turned to the United Nations’ special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples regarding the situation faced by a Yakut shaman who is being held…
Week-ending 26 November 2021 Evgeny Smirnov. Photo: RFE/RL On 23 November 2021 Evgeny Smirnov, a lawyer who worked on the defence team of journalist Ivan Safronov, who is remanded in…
Week-ending 19 November 2021 Nariman Dzhelyal at the Crimea Platform inaugural meeting Photo facebook.com/ppu.gov.ua/photos via Human Rights in Ukraine Nariman Dzhelyal, First Deputy Head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis and…
Week-ending 12 November 2021 Vladimir Osechkin. Source: Facebook Days after the Russian authorities dismissed a criminal case against Sergei Savelyev, a former prison inmate who was instrumental in making public…
Week-ending 5 November 2021 Photograph: @tomvennink On 1 November the Russian ministry of internal affairs revoked the residence permit and visa of Tom Vennink, a Dutch journalist working for de…
Week-ending 29 October 2021 Edem Semdlyaev, Simferopol, Crimea 2021 © 2021 Crimean Solidarity On 25 October 2021, the Russian authorities arbitrarily arrested the lawyer Edem Semedlyaev in Simferopol, Crimea. Human Rights…
Week-ending 22 October2021 On 20 October 2021 the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Aleksei Navalny. Parliament President David Sassoli said: “The European Parliament has chosen Alexei…