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Witnesses Against War #18: PriZoners. Criminal choices of the Russian regime

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:May 5, 2023
Post category:Blogs Penitentiary System Ukraine War Witnesses Against War
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12 July 2022 Source: Witnesses Against War Witnesses Against War is an anonymous international group of journalists, writers, historians and translators, who live in Moscow and London. For reasons of security,…

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

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:October 3, 2022
Post category:Civil Society Activists Eva Merkacheva Individuals Journalists MK Moskovsky komsomolets Penitentiary System Prisons Prohibition of Torture Public Oversight Commissions
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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…

Zoya Svetova: If the GULAG is not evacuated, there will soon be riots

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 13, 2020
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Zoya Svetova
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1 April 2020 Zoya Svetova is a journalist, human rights defender, winner of a Moscow Helsinki Group award for human rights and former member of Moscow’s Public Monitoring Commission, promoting…

Rights in Russia week-ending 3 April 2020

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 6, 2020
Post category:News of the Week
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Prisoners’ rights Campaigners Urge Russia to Release Prisoners as Coronavirus Spreads Rights campaigners are urging the Russian government to consider releasing some pre-trial detainees and prisoners held in the country's…