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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…

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…

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…

Read more about the article Andrei Arkhangelsky on historical parallels and a possible future prosecution of Russia’s political leaders and propagandists

Andrei Arkhangelsky on historical parallels and a possible future prosecution of Russia’s political leaders and propagandists

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 9, 2022
Post category:Andrei Arkhangelsky Freedom of Expression Hate Speech Journalists Putin Putinism Radio Svoboda Special Tribunal Ukraine Vladimir Putin War
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5 November 2022 by Andrei Arkhangelsky, journalist and culture specialist Source: Radio Svoboda In the Hague, at the request of Ukraine and with the participation of international jurists, a special…

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…

Read more about the article Nikolai Svanidze: There are many Russian citizens for whom the current war does not induce spiritual uplift, but abhorrence…And so long as the Constitution is not suspended, they have a right to be heard

Nikolai Svanidze: There are many Russian citizens for whom the current war does not induce spiritual uplift, but abhorrence…And so long as the Constitution is not suspended, they have a right to be heard

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 3, 2022
Post category:Civil Society Freedom of Expression Journalists Nikolai Svanidze Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Ukraine War
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October 2022 Nikolai Svanidze, member of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group Esteemed colleagues, Seeing as, unfortunately,…

Read more about the article ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ launches new website listing political prisoners to mark Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ launches new website listing political prisoners to mark Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repression

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 2, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Expression Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Politically Motivated Prosecutions Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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28 October 2022 Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial According to the most conservative estimates, the number of political prisoners in Russia and annexed territories has risen from 420 to 502 in…