22 January 2021 In 2016 five Muslims received sentences ranging from 5.5 to 17 years in prison on charges of participation in a terrorist organisation and preparation of a violent…
14 January 2021 Marsel Gimaliev, who is fighting to obtain official recognition for his disability after he suffered a fractured spine, faces life imprisonment Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Memorial…
25 November 2020 Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Radik Khairutdinov and Elmar Mamedov have been charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist organisation, although they have not been…
23 November 2020 Source: Memorial Human Rights Centre Rais Mavliutov has been charged with organising and participating in a terrorist organisation, as well as financing such an organisation and…
Week-ending 6 November 2020 Photo: RFE/RL Three Crimean Tatars - Rustem Emiruseinov, Arsen Abkhaitov and Eskendir Abulganiyev - have been sentenced to long prison terms for membership of Hizb ut-Tahrir,…
23 September 2020 Ruslan Mesutov, Lenur Khalilov, Ruslan Nagaev and Eldar Kantimirov, all from the town of Alushta in Crimea, are being prosecuted under ‘terrorism’ articles of the Russian Criminal…
15 September 2020 Lev Ponomarev, chair of the national NGO For Human Rights and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] In the…
25 August 2020 Karinna Moskalenko, lawyer, member of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and founder of the International Protection Centre Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] The real tragedy-cum-farce of…
19 June 2020 Khotamzhon Karimov and Altynbek uulu Abdymanap have been convicted under a terrorist article of the Russian Criminal Code in the absence of any evidence of terrorism Source:…
This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Sergei Davidis (pictured left), member of the board of Memorial Human Rights Centre and director of the Centre's programme on political…