Eva Merkacheva: Dismantling the Public Oversight Commissions – Torture’s supporters are now the public defenders

28 September 2022 by Eva Merkacheva, MK correspondent, laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group prize Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: MK] After facts of torture in the Saratov prison tuberculosis…

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Ilya Shablinsky: “Our law enforcement structures […] no longer feel bound by any restrictions, or even the Constitution.” [Nezavisimaya gazeta]

12 May 2022 by Ekaterina Trifonova, 'Stamped “official use only,” Constitution and laws change: The Russian citizen has been transformed from a subject of the law to an object of…

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Podcast Simon & Sergei: Rights in Russia week-ending 17 April 2020 with Sergei Poduzov

This week Simon Cosgrove and Sergei Nikitin talk with Sergei Poduzov (pictured), co-chair of Chelovek i Zakon, a leading Russian human rights organisation founded in Yoshkar-Ola, capital of the Republic…

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