News of the Week

Rights in Russia week-ending 29 January 2021
Quote for the Week. Natalia Zviagina (Amnesty International): “Russian citizens must be able to exercise their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, on 31 January or whenever they choose – these are fundamental rights.”
Person of the Week: Aleksei Navalny, prisoner of conscience
Legal Cases of the Week: In separate cases, lawyers Mansur Gilmanov and Mikhail Benyash both jailed for five days. Gilmanov was also assaulted by police.
CSO of the Week: Anti-Corruption Foundation
Law of the Week: Russia’s ‘foreign agent’ media law
There were no judgments of the ECtHR specifically concerning Russia this week
Remember the Date: 27 January is International Holocaust Day. On 27 January 1945 Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp, was liberated by Soviet troops.

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