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Federal Penitentiary Service announces new rules for defence of human rights: members of Public Oversight Commissions to become mere onlookers

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 7, 2023
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Individuals Nezavisimaya gazeta Prisons Public Oversight Commissions
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4 June 2023 by Ekaterina Trifonova Source: Nezavisimaya gazeta The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia [FPS] has established a procedure whereby members of Public Oversight Commissions (POCs) may visit penal…

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

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

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:December 19, 2022
Post category:Argumenty i fakty Human Rights Defenders Ilya Shablinsky Moscow Helsinki Group Penitentiary System Pre-Trial Detention Prisons Sergei Pashin Valery Borshchev
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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…

Irina Biriukova on torture in Russian prison colonies: ‘Any complaint provokes extraordinary resistance’

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:December 5, 2022
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Human Rights Lawyers Individuals Irina Biriukova Irina Biryukova Novaya gazeta Penitentiary System Prisons Prohibition of Torture Public Verdict Foundation
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28 November 2022 Irina Biriukova, a lawyer with the Public Verdict Foundation and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s human rights award, in conversation with Katya Orlova of Novaya gazeta…

Eva Merkacheva: Dismantling the Public Oversight Commissions – Torture’s supporters are now the public defenders

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 3, 2022
Post category:Civil Society Activists Eva Merkacheva Individuals Journalists MK Moskovsky komsomolets Penitentiary System Prisons Prohibition of Torture Public Oversight Commissions
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28 September 2022 by Eva Merkacheva, MK correspondent, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: MK] After facts of torture in the Saratov prison tuberculosis…

Leonid Gozman: If they release me after 15 days, I would prefer leaving the country to death

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:September 19, 2022
Post category:Leonid Gozman Novaya gazeta Politically Motivated Prosecutions Politicians Prisons Putin Putinism Ukraine Vladimir Putin War
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9 September 2022 Leonid Gozman in conversation with Vera Chelishcheva Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Novaya Gazeta] A difficult conversation through prison bars with Leonid Gozman—about his first experience…

Ilya Shablinsky: “Our law enforcement structures […] no longer feel bound by any restrictions, or even the Constitution.” [Nezavisimaya gazeta]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 20, 2022
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Ilya Shablinsky Individuals Judicial System Legal Experts Nezavisimaya gazeta Penitentiary System Prisons Public Oversight Commissions Sergei Pashin Valery Borshchev
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12 May 2022 by Ekaterina Trifonova, 'Stamped “official use only,” Constitution and laws change: The Russian citizen has been transformed from a subject of the law to an object of…

Read more about the article Valery Borshchev on the new internal rules for prisons: “The bad habits that go with the profession and the repressive mindset of prison officers are such that they are unlikely to endeavour to comply with the new rules”

Valery Borshchev on the new internal rules for prisons: “The bad habits that go with the profession and the repressive mindset of prison officers are such that they are unlikely to endeavour to comply with the new rules”

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 10, 2022
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Ilya Shablinsky Individuals Legal Experts Moscow Helsinki Group Nezavisimaya gazeta Penitentiary System Prisons Valery Borshchev
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Valery Borshchev 31 March 2022 by Ekaterina Trifonova, correspondent for Nezavisimaya gazeta Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Nezavisimaya gazeta, 31 March 2022] Prisoners will hope for the best where…

Lev Ponomarev: On the possibility (impossibility) of investigating torture in Russia

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:February 9, 2022
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Lev Ponomarev Penitentiary System Prisoners' Rights Defence Foundation Prisons Prohibition of Torture
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21 January 2022 By Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group [Lev Ponomarev has been included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in…

Aleksandr Podrabinek: On Vladimir Osechkin’s latest publication

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 16, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Podrabinek Human Rights Defenders Penitentiary System Prisons Prohibition of Torture Vladimir Osechkin
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5 January 2022 Source: Facebook For all the undoubted necessity of exposing the systematic torture in Russian prisons and penal colonies, Vladimir Osechkin's latest publication raises questions about the priorities,…

Lev Ponomarev: “A colonel no more.” Putin’s new decree

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:December 22, 2021
Post category:Ekho Moskvy Human Rights Defenders Penitentiary System Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Prisons Prohibition of Torture Putin Putinism
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9 December 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, head of the civil rights project For Human Rights Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо…