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

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:December 5, 2022
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Human Rights Lawyers Individuals Irina Biriukova Irina Biryukova Novaya gazeta Penitentiary System Prisons Prohibition of Torture Public Verdict Foundation
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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…

OVD-Info Weekly Bulletin No. 280: Human Rights Council – propagandists instead of human rights activists

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 21, 2022
Post category:Aleksei Navalny Foreign Agent Law News OVD-Info Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights Prohibition of Torture Rights Groups in Russia
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19 November 2022 OVD-Info is a Moscow-based NGO that monitors politically-motivated arrests and prosecutions in Russia. Each week OVD-Info publishes a bulletin with the latest news, which is translated here. To receive…

Doxa: One of the six men held in custody in the Tyumen Affair speaks out about torture by law enforcement agents

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:November 15, 2022
Post category:Police Prohibition of Torture Tiumen Tyumen
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3 November 2022 Trigger Warning: Text contains descriptions of torture and sexualised violence Source: Doxa One of the six men held in custody in connection with the Tyumen Affair, anti-fascist…

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…

The Sheriff. Igor Kalyapin, fighter for social justice

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 30, 2020
Post category:Committee Against Torture Human Rights Defenders Igor Kalyapin
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12 June 2020 By Julia Vishnevetskaya Extracts Source: Radio Svoboda Igor Kalyapin, 52, head of the Committee against Torture, has gone through all the social dramas of post-Soviet Russia: in…

Podcast Simon & Sergei: with Olga Sadovskaya of the Committee Against Torture (Nizhny Novgorod)

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:June 29, 2020
Post category:Committee Against Torture Olga Sadovskaya Olga Sadovskaya Podcast Podcasts
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This week our guest is Olga Sadovskaya of the Nizhny Novgorod human rights NGO, Committee against Torture, which is led by Igor Kalyapin. Olga Sadovskaya is the head of the…

Igor Kalyapin: On Tatyana Moskalkova’s proposals to combat torture

Post author:Rights in Russia
Post published:April 26, 2020
Post category:Human Rights Defenders Igor Kalyapin
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16 April 2020 Igor Kalyapin is chair of the permanent Commission of the Human Rights Council on public participation in monitoring law enforcement agencies, head of the Committee Against…