22 July 2021 The European Court of Human Rights banned Russia from extraditing Kudin, a participant in last year's August protests, to his home country of Belarus where he is…
15 July 2021 Oleg Makurin was fined 300,000 roubles for public justification of terrorism Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial Human Rights Centre, in accordance with international guidelines, considers the…
16 July 2021 Statement by Memorial Human Rights Centre Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre It recently became known that Aleksei Pichugin, Russia's longest serving political prisoner, has been transferred from…
Week-ending 23 July 2021 'Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s life is no longer at immediate risk as he started receiving the medical care he required on 23 April. Russian authorities…
13 July 2021 Andrei Krasno of Kavkaz.Realii in conversation with Semyon Simonov Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Кавказ.Реалии] On 12 July the magistrate of the 101st section of Central District…
Pictured: Boris Al’tshuler, head of the children's rights NGO Right of the Child, physicist, social commentator, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and one of the signatories of the open…
7 July 2021 Pichuzhin was sentenced to two years in a penal colony for pushing a riot police officer; the court ruled Pichuzhin had struck the officer. Source: Memorial Human…
Week-ending 16 July 2021 On 12 July 2021 human rights defender Semyon Simonov was convicted by a court in Sochi under the 'foreign agent' law for an unpaid fine imposed…
2 July 2021 Emil Ziyadinov has been remanded in custody on terrorist charges despite not being accused of any specific terrorist activity Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial Human Rights…
8 July 2021 Nikolai Vasiliev of Sobesednik.ru in coversation with the human rights journalist Vera Vasilieva about the case of Aleksei Pichugin Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Собеседник] Aleksei…