Weekly Update week-ending 11 December 2020

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Rights in Russia week-ending 11 December 2020

Podcast No. 49. Simon & Sergei with Irina Kosterina

Team 29: Putin on Safronov and extremism in preaching

‘Participation in peaceful rallies should be decriminalized.’ Team 29 publishes an appeal by human rights defenders to the Ministry of Justice

50 Russian NGOs appeal to UN Special Rapporteurs over new foreign-agent bill

Sergei Lukashevsky: A new level of unfreedom. Bills have been introduced to the State Duma that will virtually outlaw civic activity in Russia.

Karinna Moskalenko: The truth about judicial protection/repression in politically motivated prosecutions

Leonid Nikitinsky: A “Lepers’ Constitution”

Marina Litvinovich writes about conditions in pre-trial detention facilities: On Mutual Aid

From Marjorie Farquharson’s diary (1984): “If Sakharov dies, the whole effort of human rights work seems hopeless”

Simon Cosgrove: A look back at the past week in Russia