20 May 2021 Pictured: Karinna Moskalenko, lawyer, international lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / Novaya Gazeta Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Радио Свобода] 17 May…
20 May 2021 by Vera Vasilieva is an independent journalist, host of Radio Svoboda’s “Freedom and Memorial,” and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Prize for Human Rights Source: Moscow…
21 May 2021 Aleksandr Shestun has been sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony on charges of large-scale fraud, money laundering, illegal business activity and receiving bribes Source:…
Week-ending 28 May 2021 This week three new charges were laid against Aleksei Navalny, recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience 1) for theft of donations to the…
20 May 2021 The four residents of Crimea have been remanded in custody under articles of the Russian Criminal Code that deal with terrorism, although none of the four were…
19 May 2021 Rais Gimadiev was charged with organising the activities of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial Human Rights Centre, in accordance with international guidelines,…
Week-ending 21 May 2021 This week a court dismissed Aleksei Navalny's legal challenge to the refusal by the Russian authorities to open an investigation into his attempted murder, a court…
Week-ending 21 May 2021 YouTube On 19 May 2021 Nikolai Platoshkin, a former diplomat and prominent academic, video blogger and opposition activist designated by Amnesty International as a prisoner of…
28 April 2021 Former Interior Minister of Ingushetia Akhmed Pogorov is accused of organising violence against law enforcement officers and of membership of an ‘extremist group.’ Source: Memorial Human Rights…
6 May 2021 Laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Human Rights Prize, leader of the legal and advocacy group Team 29, the lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who was served with a…