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‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: St. Petersburg political scientist Evgeny Bestuzhev is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:March 9, 2023
Post category:Evgeny Bestuzhev Freedom of Expression Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Military Political Prisoners. Memorial Rights Groups in Russia Saint Petersburg Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Ukraine War
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10 November 2022 Evgeny Bestuzhev has been remanded in custody for anti-war posts on the VK social network Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial On 9 November 2022, law enforcement officers searched…

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Three participants in Mayakovsky Square poetry readings are political prisoners

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:March 9, 2023
Post category:Freedom of Expression Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Moscow City Political Prisoners. Memorial Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Ukraine War
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7 December 2023 Artem Kamardin, Nikolai Daineko and Egor Shtovba are being prosecuted for reading anti-war poetry Source: Politial Prisoners. Memorial The human rights project ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ considers Artem…

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Human rights defender Gregory Vinter is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:January 16, 2023
Post category:Freedom of Expression Gregory Vinter Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners. Memorial Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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20 October 2022 Gregory Vinter, prosecuted for ‘fake news’ about the Russian army, was initially remanded in custody but is now under house arrest Source: Telegram The human rights project…

Read more about the article ‘Dovlatov’s phrase about “four million denunciations” is a dangerous falsehood.’ Aleksandr Cherkasov on repressions, the Nobel Prize and the state of human rights advocacy [Bumaga]

Photo: Nikita Mouraviev

‘Dovlatov’s phrase about “four million denunciations” is a dangerous falsehood.’ Aleksandr Cherkasov on repressions, the Nobel Prize and the state of human rights advocacy [Bumaga]

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 29, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Cherkasov Bumaga Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Human Rights Defenders International Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Putin Putinism Ukraine Vladimir Putin War
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Photo: Nikita Mouraviev/ Facebook 21 November 2022 by Aleksandr Cherkasov Source: Bumaga This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to human rights activists: the chair of the Belarusian movement Viasna,…

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 ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Zarema Musaeva, wife of a retired federal judge and mother of the Yangulbaev brothers active in the Chechen opposition, is a political prisoner

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Zarema Musaeva, wife of a retired federal judge and mother of the Yangulbaev brothers active in the Chechen opposition, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 31, 2022
Post category:Chechnya Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial Zarema Musaeva
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26 August 2022 Chechen law enforcement officers took Zarema Musaeva from Nizhny Novgorod to Grozny, where she was remanded in custody on trumped-up charges. Source: Political Prisoners. Memorial The human…

Read more about the article ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Munirkhon Boboev, a citizen of Tajikistan convicted in Russia on charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, is a political prisoner

‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’: Munirkhon Boboev, a citizen of Tajikistan convicted in Russia on charges of involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir, is a political prisoner

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 27, 2022
Post category:Freedom of Expression Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion Hizb ut-Tahrir Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Munirkhon Boboev Political Prisoners. Memorial Right of Association Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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25 August 2022 Munirkhon Boboev is charged with preparing the violent overthrow of the government because Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters believe that the ideal society of the future is a worldwide…

Read more about the article Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre on the prosecution of Bakhrom Khamroev: Twenty Years in Prison for Appealing to Strasbourg?

Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre on the prosecution of Bakhrom Khamroev: Twenty Years in Prison for Appealing to Strasbourg?

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 25, 2022
Post category:Bakhrom Khamroev Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Human Rights Defenders Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Political Prisoners Political Prisoners. Memorial Rights Groups in Russia Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial
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19 October 2022 Statement by the board of Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre Source: Telegram Human Rights as Terrorism: Twenty Years in Prison for Appealing to Strasbourg? During the court…

Aleksandr Cherkasov: We have far more work to do than we have resources to do it

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 20, 2022
Post category:Aleksandr Cherkasov Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial Human Rights Defenders International Memorial Memorial Memorial Human Rights Centre Nobel Peace Prize United Nations
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16 October 2022 An interview with Aleksandr Cherkasov, head of the Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights award Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original…