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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.
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Russia, Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 20 April 2017
22.04.2024
World Headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses (20.04.2024) – April 20th marks the seventh anniversary of Russia’s nationwide ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses, which has led to hundreds of peaceful believers jailed and some brutally tortured.
Relentless torment of 71-year-old Memorial Co-Chair Oleg Orlov, imprisoned for condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine
02.04.2024
Russia is not content to imprison the world-renowned human rights defender, but is also placing his life and health in danger
Russian propaganda TV broadcast deepfake video to blame Ukraine for Moscow terrorist attack
25.03.2024
The suggestion from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence that the video was prepared in advance would raise many disturbing questions, as does the behaviour of the authorities in the light of the warnings received
Russia sentences poet Aleksandr Byvshev to 7 years for writing of its war crimes in Ukraine
22.03.2024
The 51-year-old poet was charged with ‘fakes’ about Russia’s armed forces and ‘calls to terrorism’ over a poem and post in which he spelled out Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine
Freedom to Oleg Orlov!
01.03.2024
Statement by the International MemorialAssociation
Russia's youngest Ukrainian political prisoner convicted of ‘justifying terrorism’ in social media posts written by Russia’s FSB
01.03.2024
Illya Hibeskul was imprisoned for almost a year after the FSB decided to concoct charges against the young Ukrainian who had refused Russian citizenship
18-year-old Russian imprisoned for Shevchenko poem on anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
01.03.2024
Russia really has descended into its repressive past, with Darya Kozyreva imprisoned and facing insane criminal charges for posting lines from Taras Shevchenko’s Testament
Oleg Orlov, renowned human rights defender and Memorial Co-Chair, sentenced to 2.5 years for condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine
27.02.2024
The world-renowned human rights defender noted in his final address that all recent developments had only confirmed his stark assessment of Russia’s descent into fascist totalitarianism
71-year-old Ukrainian seized on fake 'spying' charges dies in Russian captivity
12.02.2024
Almost nothing is known about Viktor Demchenko, however Russia was undoubtedly imprisoning him illegally and probably caused his death, as it did the deaths of Dzhemil Gafarov and Kostiantyn Shyrinh
Bizarre 'motives' concocted to imprison renowned Memorial Head for opposing Russia's war against Ukraine
02.02.2024
Russia is clearly trying to imprison 70-year-old Oleg Orlov, by claiming that his opposition to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine was based on ‘ideological enmity towards traditional spiritual-moral and patriotic values’
Sentenced to die in agony, for writing about Russia’s war crimes against Ukraine
29.12.2023
Russia has already caused the death of two Ukrainian political prisoners, and is now endangering and torturing 65-year-old Igor Baryshnikov for telling the truth about Russia’s crimes in Mariupol, Bucha and other Ukrainian cities
Russia uses punitive psychiatry to indefinitely imprison critic of its war against Ukraine
27.12.2023
A Russian court has ruled that Viktoria Petrova was not in a fit state when she posted criticism of Russia's aggression against Ukraine and Putin's 'genocide of the Ukrainian people'
22-year-old Ukrainian jailed for 3 years for writing that Russia is destroying Ukraine
15.12.2023
Prokhor Neizhmakov wrote of Russia’s imperialist aspirations and the huge number of deaths from Russia’s invasion of his country
War against Independent Culture: a Digest of Russian Protests
14.12.2023
On 21 November, the Voronezh Chamber Theatre fired its director Mikhail Bychkov for his anti-war stance. Mikhail Bychkov is one of the founders of the Voronezh Chamber Theatre.
Fears for the life of Alexei Gorinov, serving 7-year sentence for telling the truth about Russia’s war against Ukraine
11.12.2023
Alexei Gorinov has been savagely punished for condemning Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, yet the authorities have now concocted new, absurd, charges of ‘justifying terrorism’
Foiled by Finland, Russia forces asylum seekers to fight its war against Ukraine
08.12.2023
Russia’s methods of finding fighters for its war of aggression against Ukraine are brutally cynical and in flagrant violation even of its own legislation, let alone international law
Ukrainian political prisoner hospitalized after 9 years of Russian brutal torment
07.12.2023
66-year-old Viktor Shur has served nine of the twelve year sentence that Russia imposed on grotesque ‘spying charges’ over a photo of cows grazing at a disused aerodrome
‘War is Death’: a Digest of Russian Protests
06.12.2023
At least 17 murderers were pardoned in the Russian Federation for participating in the war. Among them, for example, Sergey Khadzhikurbanov, convicted of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. Meanwhile, the artist Sasha Skochylenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for anti-war price tags.
‘I’m freer than you”: Artist Sasha Skochilenko gets 7 years for price tags telling truth about Russia's war against Ukraine
17.11.2023
The artist has been imprisoned since April 2022 after replacing price tags in a supermarket with stark facts about Russia’s war against Ukraine and war crimes in Mariupol
New attempt to imprison Memorial Head for ‘disrupting civil society’ by condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine
30.10.2023
As Oleg Orlov notes, the prosecutor’s office have themselves exposed the political nature of this ‘trial’, by claiming that the 70-year-old should be “isolated from society” for three years for criticising the regime
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