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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 260: A ‘foreign agent’ because of an americano

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:July 3, 2022
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2 July 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…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 259: If you’re president for seven years …

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 27, 2022
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25 June 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…

Read more about the article Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners’: Igor Maltsev, remanded in custody for taking part in an anti-war rally in St. Petersburg, is a political prisoner

Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners’: Igor Maltsev, remanded in custody for taking part in an anti-war rally in St. Petersburg, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 21, 2022
Post category:Igor Maltsev Memorial Human Rights Centre Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Sofia Semenova
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11 May 2022 Igor Maltsev and Sofia Semenova are being prosecuted for the criminal offence of hooliganism after burning an effigy in camouflage on the ice of the Malaya Neva…

Read more about the article Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Police officer Sergei Klokov, accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army, is a political prisoner

Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Police officer Sergei Klokov, accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 21, 2022
Post category:Memorial Human Rights Centre Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia
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17 May 2022 Sergei Klokov has been remanded in custody on charges of talking on the phone about crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine Source: Support for Political Prisoners.…

Read more about the article Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Smolensk-based bloggers Ruslan Bobiev and Anastasia Chistova are political prisoners

Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Smolensk-based bloggers Ruslan Bobiev and Anastasia Chistova are political prisoners

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 14, 2022
Post category:Anastasia Chistova Freedom of Expression Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Ruslan Bobiev Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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18 April 2022 In October 2021 Bobiev and Chistova were sentenced to 10 months in prison for a photograph of simulated oral sex in front of St Basil's Cathedral Source:…

Read more about the article Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Smolensk-based blogger Aleksei Chervyakov is a political prisoner

Human Rights Project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Smolensk-based blogger Aleksei Chervyakov is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 14, 2022
Post category:Aleksei Chervyakov Freedom of Expression Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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12 May 2022 Chervyakov is being prosecuted on charges of rehabilitating Nazism for comments he made online against graffiti with a veteran's portrait Source: Human Rights Project 'Support for Political…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 257: Remove the witnesses

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 13, 2022
Post category:Council of Europe European Court of Human Rights FSB Network Case OVD-Info Rights Groups in Russia Ukraine
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12 June 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…

Read more about the article Memorial Human Rights Centre: Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Esipenko, convicted in Crimea, is a political prisoner

Memorial Human Rights Centre: Ukrainian journalist Vladislav Esipenko, convicted in Crimea, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 6, 2022
Post category:Crimea Freedom of Expression Memorial Human Rights Centre Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Ukraine Vladislav Esipenko
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25 March 2022 Esipenko has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of possessing a grenade Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial Human Rights Centre, in…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 256: An extremist group, and more

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 6, 2022
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5 June 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…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 255: Discredit!

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 30, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Expression OVD-Info Rights Groups in Russia Ukraine War
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28 May 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…