On the outlawing of Agora. “In a totalitarian country, there is no such thing as a free legal profession” 

19 June 2023 What Agora, which the General Prosecutor’s Office has deemed an undesirable organization, is remembered for and what Russians are saying about that Source: Govorit NeMoskva The lead…

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Statement on the searches of civil activists in Perm 

20 May 2023 Source: Perm Centre for Historical Memory On 19 May 2023, law enforcement officials came to the apartments of our esteemed colleagues: Nadezhda Agisheva, Tatyana Margolina, Svetlana Makovetskaya,…

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Declaration of the International Memorial Association

16 May 2023 Declaration of the International Memorial Association Source: International Memorial Association The International Memorial Society was disbanded by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on 28 February…

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Leonid Nikitinsky: Every nation has its own heroes. The Moscow Helsinki Group presented its last (for now) legally-permitted awards.

27 April 2023 by Leonid Nikitinsky, 2011 MHG award laureate  Source: The Moscow Times [original source: Novaya Gazeta] On the eve of the expected decision of the Supreme Court of the…

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Dmitry Makarov: Concluding Remarks at the Trial on the Liquidation of the Moscow Helsinki Group

5 May 2023 By Dmitry Makarov, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group as of 27 April 2023 Source: Facebook Respected court (I address you this way because I maintain my…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Kazan resident Ruslan Ilyasov convicted of participating in Hizb ut-Tahrir is a political prisoner

7 February 2023 Ruslan Ilyasov was sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for ‘terrorist’ offences Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial,’ a human rights project, considers Kazan resident Ruslan Ilyasov…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Two Crimean Tatars (Timur Yalkabov and Lenur Seidametov), convicted on charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, are political prisoners

1 February 2023 Timur Yalkabov was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment and Lenur Seidametov to 13 years’ imprisonment Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial,’ a human rights project, in…

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Journalists and human rights activists demand the release of Vladimir Kara-Murza [Spektr]

10 April 2023 ‘What is in actual fact a life sentence, monstrous in its cruelty, for words he spoke against the war.’ Source: Spektr Journalists and human rights defenders have…

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Vladimir Kara-Murza: ‘This is not the 1970s. This is the 1930s.’

10 April 2023 Vladimir Kara-Murza, opposition politician and political prisoner: final address to the court Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Новая газета. Европа] Citizen Judges! I was sure that after…

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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Yashar Shikhametov is a political prisoner

27 January 2023 Yashar Shikhametov, a resident of Crimea, has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment for involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial,’ a human…

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