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…
Week-ending 16 July 2021 'Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the criminal prosecution of Ernest Mezak, a prominent human rights defender from Syktyvkar, Republic of Komi. On 25 June, investigators…
Week-ending 9 July 2021 "In recent years and particularly in recent months, the Russian authorities have constructed a legal landscapethat is inconsistent with international standards, including the ICCPR and the…
Week-ending 2 July 2021 Photo: Facebook “The Russian authorities respond to reports of top-level corruption with impressive severity and lightning speed – except that they persecute those who expose it.…
Week-ending 25 June 2021 "In the Russian Federation, I am dismayed by recent measures that further undermine people's right to express critical views, and their ability to take part in the…
Week-ending 18 June 2021 “It’s been a busy few days...months. [...] In almost all the big cases you read, our team is somehow involved. [...] Cases that we won back…
Week-ending 11 June 2021 The Committee of Ministers of the 47-nation Council of Europe has expressed grave concern that Aleksey Navalnyy remains in detention and his conviction in the “Yves…
Week-ending 4 June 2021 “I just want them to stop coming to me and waking me up at night. What did I do? Did I climb the fence? Did I…
Week-ending 28 May 2021 Photo of Emir-Usein Kuku by Эртугрул Гази - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikipedia “The decision to keep Emir-Usein Kuku behind bars demonstrates the Russian…
Week-ending 21 May 2021 "On the 100th anniversary of Andrey Sakharov’s birth, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee will present the 2021 Sakharov Freedom Award to historian and dissident Yury Dmitriev. Yury…