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OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 281: Ever more restrictions

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 28, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Expression Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion Hizb ut-Tahrir LGBT Rights News OVD-Info Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia
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26 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…

Read more about the article ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: <strong>Three more of Aleksei Navalny’s supporters, charged with being members of an ‘extremist group,’ are political prisoners</strong>

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Three more of Aleksei Navalny’s supporters, charged with being members of an ‘extremist group,’ are political prisoners

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 21, 2022
Post category:Daniel Kholodny Freedom of Expression Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Politically Motivated Prosecutions Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Rustem Miliukov Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Vadim Ostanin
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13 Septmber 2022 Vadim Ostanin and Daniel Kholodny are in custody, while Rustem Muliukov is under house arrest Source: Telegram The human rights project ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial,’ in accordance with…

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

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 21, 2022
Post category:Aleksei Navalny Foreign Agent Law News OVD-Info Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Prohibition of Torture Rights Groups in Russia
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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…

Attempt to reverse liquidation of Memorial unsuccessful [Kommersant]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 17, 2022
Post category:Foreign Agent Law Freedom of Expression Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial International Memorial Judicial System Kommersant Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners. Memorial Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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9 November 2022 by Aleksei Sviridov & Maria Starikova Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Коммерсантъ] For the third time, Memorial Human Rights Centre failed in its appeal against the earlier…

Read more about the article ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Kaliningrad opposition activist Vadim Khairullin, convicted under the so-called ‘Dadin’ article of the Russian Criminal Code, is a political prisoner

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Kaliningrad opposition activist Vadim Khairullin, convicted under the so-called ‘Dadin’ article of the Russian Criminal Code, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 15, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Assembly Freedom of Expression Kaliningrad Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Politically Motivated Prosecutions Right of assembly Rights Groups in Russia Vadim Khairullin
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16 September 2022 Vadim Khairullin will spend a year in a penal colony for participation in rallies of solidarity with the Belarusian opposition and in support of Aleksei Navalny Source:…

Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre: Statement on the arrest of Mikhail Kriger

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 14, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Expression Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Mikhail Kriger Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Ukraine War
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7 November 2022 Source: Facebook On 3 November 2022 well-known democracy and human rights activist Mikhail Kriger was detained in Moscow. On 5 November Moscow’s Cheremushkinsky district court remanded Kriger…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 279: Deportation for a TikTok

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 14, 2022
Post category:News OVD-Info Rights Groups in Russia
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12 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…

Read more about the article ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Musician and artist Grigory Mumrikov, charged with preparing an anti-war protest on 9 May that did not take place, is a political prisoner

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Musician and artist Grigory Mumrikov, charged with preparing an anti-war protest on 9 May that did not take place, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 10, 2022
Post category:Danila Tkachenko Freedom of Expression Grigory Mumrikov Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Moscow City Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Politically Motivated Prosecutions Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Telegram
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20 September 2022 Mumrikov's friend, the anti-war artist Danila Tkachenko, had planned to blow smoke in the colours of the Ukrainian flag over military vehicles passing through central Moscow, but…

OVD-Info: UN calls on Russia to repeal laws on ‘foreign agents’, ‘fake news’, and discrediting the Army

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 8, 2022
Post category:Facial Recognition Foreign Agent Law Freedom of Assembly Freedom of Expression OVD-Info Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia UN Human Rights Committee Undesirable Foreign Organisations Law United Nations
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4 November 2022 Source: OVD-Info The UN Human Rights Committee (UN HRC) has published its concluding observations on the human rights situation in Russia, in which it called for the…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 278: Environmental activist Arshak Makichyan stripped of Russian citizenship

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 7, 2022
Post category:News OVD-Info Rights Groups in Russia
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5 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…