‘I am concerned and keeping my finger on the pulse’ Perm region human rights ombudsman Igor Sapko on the FSB searches of civil society activists

19 May 2023 According to Igor Sapko, all the individuals whose homes have been searched are witnesses in the criminal case, not defendants Source: 59.ru Igor Sapko, Perm region Human…

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Weekly Update [week-ending 17 February 2023]

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Putin expels Moscow Helsinki Group member Nikolai Svanidze from Human Rights Council

17 November 2022 Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Putin has issued a decree removing several individuals from the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, including Moscow Helsinki Group member…

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Lev Ponomarev on cases of torture at a penal colony in Irkutsk and problems with the investigation

9 July 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights activist, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group (original source: Эхо Москвы) “THIS COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED…

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Memorial Human Rights Centre: Salman Tepsurkaev, who was abducted, is a political prisoner

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…

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Arseny Levinson: On Arseny Roginsky, the responsibility of historians and legal proceedings regarding the opening of FSB archives

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]…

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Remember the Date: 27 January is International Holocaust Day. On 27 January 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops.

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…

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