Anna Karetnikova: Respect to everyone who went to lay flowers in Russian cities!

12-17 February 2025 by Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 12 February 2025 [Here is] a link to a detailed article from OVD-Info on the state of prison healthcare, using examples from…

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Anna Karetnikova: The repressions have acquired a new tragic note

24 January - 8 February 2025 Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook 24 January 2025 The Russian Justice Ministry has proclaimed the 'Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial' project a foreign agent. I…

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Anna Karetnikova: Resuscitation measures are always carried out. Even when there is obviously no benefit to the deceased.

18 February 2024 Anna Karetnikova Source: Facebook I was thinking that maybe (just maybe) it is not the best idea to collect signatures for the relatives to be given the…

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Anna Karetnikova: ‘They’re going to write Pulmonary Embolism anyway’

16 February 2024 Source: Facebook PE (pulmonary embolism) is the name of a disease that at least prison medics use in a kind of, well, somewhat figurative, general sense. It…

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Federal Penitentiary Service announces new rules for defence of human rights: members of Public Oversight Commissions to become mere onlookers

4 June 2023 by Ekaterina Trifonova  Source: Nezavisimaya gazeta The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia [FPS] has established a procedure whereby members of Public Oversight Commissions (POCs) may visit penal…

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Russia plans to build multi-purpose prison camp settlements. Commentaries by Ilya Shablinsky, Valery Borshchev and Sergei Pashin [Argumenty i fakty]

14 October 2022 Sergei Pashin (pictured left) says: 'This is a bad kind of 'unification,' when innocent people, who are only under detention to await trial, are lumped in together…

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Irina Biriukova on torture in Russian prison colonies: ‘Any complaint provokes extraordinary resistance’

28 November 2022 Irina Biriukova, a lawyer with the Public Verdict Foundation and laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group’s human rights award, in conversation with Katya Orlova of Novaya gazeta…

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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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