Olga Sadovskaya: The attack on Russian lawyers did not begin in 2022

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Olga Sadovskaya: The Organization of Concerned Nations got down to business

31 October 2024 The day before yesterday, at the Organization of Concerned Nations, the Special Rapporteur for Russia presented a report on torture. Source: Facebook THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED,…

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Rights in Russia interview with Olga Sadovskaya, a leading lawyer with Team Against Torture

This month Mary Page talks with Olga Sadovskaya, a lawyer from Nizhny Novgorod who works with Team Against Torture, a civil society group initially founded in 2000 as the Committee…

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“Torture takes us further from the truth, not closer.” Human rights activist Olga Sadovskaya on state violence and the harm of torture [Cherta – an extract]

1 July 2024 An extract Source: Cherta Since the start of military actions in Ukraine, the state’s approach to “unlawful methods of inquiry” and punishments seems to have changed. Previously,…

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Statement by Russian human rights defenders: ‘We don’t want death squads and torture. We want security and the rule of law.’

25 March 2024 Published by Public Verdict Foundation and other signatories [see below] Source: Facebook In the interests of Russian society, the prohibition on torture must be absolute We stand…

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

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…

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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 280: Human Rights Council – propagandists instead of human rights activists

19 November 2022 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

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Doxa: One of the six men held in custody in the Tyumen Affair speaks out about torture by law enforcement agents

3 November 2022 Trigger Warning: Text contains descriptions of torture and sexualised violence Source: Doxa One of the six men held in custody in connection with the Tyumen Affair, anti-fascist…

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

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…

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