Team 29: 💣Hidden threats of spam
8 August 2020 Hi! This is Elya Pakhomova, head of media and spokesperson for Team 29. This week we told you who were convicted of state treason and espionage in…
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Press releases, weekly bulletins and other publications by human rights organisations in Russia
OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 165: A new low for Russian justice.
8 August 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
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Team 29: 👀Spymania as an illness
1 August 2020 Hi, I’m Elya, head of media and spokesperson at Team 29. We have important news: together with relatives and friends of Ivan Safronov we are launching a…
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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 164: Are you also fed up with foul play at single person pickets?
1 August 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Friday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
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Memorial Human Rights Centre: A Chechen from Kazakhstan, convicted of justifying terrorism on the basis of videos on social networks, is a political prisoner
21 July 2020 Aitakhadzhi Khalimov saved three videos containing archive footage from the first Chechen war on his VKontakte page. A court sentenced him to 3.5 years’ imprisonment on charges…
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Team 29: ⚡Russia and treason. How careers are made out of cases of national importance
25 July 2020 Hi! This is Elya Pakhomova, Head of Media and Press Secretary at Team 29. As promised, we launched a new series of our Little Terror podcast, which…
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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 163: Transgender people arrested, extremism, terrorism and journalists fined
25 July 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Saturday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
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Memorial Human Rights Centre: Leftwing politician and video blogger Nikolai Platoshkin is a political prisoner
13 July 2020 Nikolai Platoshkin has been unjustifiably charged with making preparations for riots. This charge is politically motivated and related to his opposition civic and political activities. Source: Memorial…
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Team 29: 💥Absurdity level: off the scale!
18 July 2020 Hi! It’s Elya Pakhomova, Team 29 Head of Media and Press Secretary. The main news this week: charges were brought against the journalist Ivan Safronov. Days later…
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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 162: Arrests in Moscow, the Navalny case and new freedom of assembly
18 July 2020 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests in Russia. Every Saturday OVD-Info sends out a mailing with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive the…
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