Russia plans to build multi-purpose prison camp settlements. Commentaries by Ilya Shablinsky, Valery Borshchev and Sergei Pashin [Argumenty i fakty]

14 October 2022 Sergei Pashin (pictured left) says: 'This is a bad kind of 'unification,' when innocent people, who are only under detention to await trial, are lumped in together…

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Ivan Pavlov: Scientists are easy prey for our special services [Present Tense]

1 July 2022 The human rights lawyer Ivan Pavlov, a laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize for human rights, in conversation with Irina Pomaliiskaya of Present Tense about the…

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Moscow POC members sign appeal in support of Marina Litvinovich

7 March 2021 Pictured left: Valery Borshchev, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group, one of the authors of the law on public oversight in the Russian Federation, a former member…

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Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny, a prisoner of conscience, arrested and remanded in custody for 30 days

Week-ending 22 January 2021 On 17 January 2021 the Russian authorities arrested Aleksei Navalny when he arrived in Moscow by plane from Berlin. The next day at a court hearing…

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Marina Litvinovich writes about conditions in pre-trial detention facilities: On Mutual Aid

3 December 2020 By Marina Litvinovich, member of the Public Oversight Commission in Moscow Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета] On prominent doctors, lawyers, cooks and other professionals who,…

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