7 April 2021 Salman Tepsurkaev, a 19-year-old moderator of the oppositionist Telegram channel 1ADAT that reported on human rights violations in Chechnya, was abducted in early September 2020 Source: Memorial…
31 March 2021 By Arseny Levinson, human rights defender, lawyer, an expert of the Institute of human rights, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Facebook]…
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops. International Holocaust day is an international memorial day on 27 January commemorating the victims of…
Amnesty International: Responding to the mass arrests and detention of more than 1.300 protesters gathered today in Moscow and across Russia to rally against the politically motivated detention of prominent…
Week-ending 2 October 2020 This week there were two judgments of the European Court of Human Rights concerning Russia, dealing with Article 8 and Article 6. Russia also responded to…
18 August 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chair of the national civil society organisation For Human Rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Ekho Moskvy, 18.08.2020]…
Union of Journalists and Mass Media Workers Source: Facebook 7 July 2020 Over the past week, journalists have become regular heroes of criminal news: the attack at a polling station…
30 May 2020 Grigory Melkonyants, chair of the Golos voters’ rights movement Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Голос] Judging by recent publications of the draft, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC)…
Week-ending 8 May 2020 Restricted access to Moscow courts extended until May 31 The regime of restricted access to Moscow courts for non-parties of trials including journalists has been extended…
30 March 2020 Dmitry Makarov, co-chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: ОГФ] The Moscow Helsinki Group calls on Russian authorities to take urgent measures…