Russia has reached “a new level of lawlessness” with its imprisonment of human rights defender Bakhrom Khamroev, with sinister methods that could well be used in occupied Crimea

This is the latest of a series of attacks on Memorial, targeted not only for its commitment to uncovering historical truth, but for its unwavering position on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and on Ukrainian political prisoners

By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of freedom of religion remain in Russia.

Russia’s FSB have concocted absurd ‘treason through spying’ charges against 25-year-old Leniye Umerova, five months after she was first detained while trying to visit her father, who is suffering from cancer

There are strong grounds for fearing that the FSB are using administrative arrest on fake charges to drag out Leniye Umerova’s imprisonment while they fabricate criminal charges against her

The material pushes a seriously distorted, and often openly false, picture of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Concern that Oleg Orlov, Co-Chair of Memorial, could face imprisonment for his criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated since it became known who has provided the supposed ‘expert assessments’ of Orlov’s words

Russian officials have fabricated one administrative arrest after another to keep 25-year-old Leniye Umerova imprisoned, and there are fears that they may be planning to concoct criminal charges

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

After being seized by the Russian FSB, savagely tortured and imprisoned for six and a half years, all Andriy Zakhtei wants is to get back to Ukraine, to his wife and their daughter

Russia has carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, with its co-chair, Oleg Orlov facing criminal charges and a likely prison sentence for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.

Just as in the worst years of Soviet terror, it has become dangerous to openly speak of the crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine, or even shout ‘Glory to Ukraine’.

This unjust punishment comes in retaliation for 25 years of their human rights work in Belarus

A bill being rushed through parliament extends the scope of draconian legislation criminalizing telling the truth about Russia's war against Ukraine to cover hardened criminals recruited as mercenaries from Russian prisons

Belarusian partisans have, seemingly, pulled off the biggest act of sabotage of Russia’s war against Ukraine, with a Russian A-50 early warning and control aeroplane either destroyed or very severely damaged

Last week in Russia, the recruitment office, the Investigative Committee, relay cases by the railway were all set on fire: Russians are mastering “hot” forms of protest. Meanwhile, one could be put behind bars for a bouquet of flowers or a “Peace” poster.

A Russian court has sentenced journalist and human rights activist Maria Ponomarenko to six years’ imprisonment for a post on Telegram about Russia’s bombing of the Drama Theatre in Mariupol on 16 March 2022

The priest Ioann Koval replaced the word “victory” with the word “peace” in a special prayer about “Holy Russia”. Soon he was forbidden from leading any services.

A closed court in Belarus has passed two more 22-year sentences on two men whose actions probably helped prevent Russia from succeeding in taking Kyiv in the first month of its full-scale invasion.

Oleksandr Marchenko has been fined 30 thousand roubles in a Russian harsh-regime prison colony for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian army’ by calling Russia’s war against Ukraine a war