There are grave fears that the FSB and other authorities may be planning to secretly pass Djong Koun Tchol to the North Korean in violation of Russian legislation and international law

The author of these autobiographical notes is Uzbekistan national Mukhammadsolykh Abutov who served eight and a half years in Uzbekistan labour camps for his religious beliefs. This document requires no commentary; it needs only to be read – and please pass it on to others

According to media reports, Russia, supported by Belarus, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, is proposing that NGOs should only be allowed at meetings of the OSCE with the approval of the country where they are registered.

"We were very different. Political idealism – that is simple: when engaged in politics, behave as befits a decent person. That’s all."

Over the last year and a half since amendments were made to the law on NGOs, virtually all organizations who have faced checks, and the number of such in the country runs into the thousands already, have lived under threat of closure

While any person remains imprisoned in the countries of the former Soviet Union, this day should be not merely a day of remembrance, but one of active protest

The website Human Rights in Russia is now temporarily available to all its readers at the following address: http://hro1.org. The scale and technical sophistication involved in the attack suggest a very deliberate onslaught on a major human rights resource and information network

Up to two thousand people marched under national flags through the city honouring the memory of the tens of thousands of Belarusian victims of Stalin’s repressions in the 1920s and 1930s buried in the Kuropaty Clearing, and demanding an

Putin wishes to focus on “achievements” as do we. The most “positive” achievement, however, will be a society able to reject lies and disinformation, prepared to face and learn from its own history

Clearly very many people in Russia do not see the Terror as something better not mentioned, as certain leaders appear to believe

The attack on Russia’s largest human rights website has proved especially persistent, ferocious and menacing for us all. The following is therefore recommended reading. We would also, however, stress that we need to show a united front in this war which is being foisted on us all and help in any way that we can

The largest Russian language human rights website is facing a major and clearly deliberate DDoS attack. Such dirty tactics are an outrage and we must be united in fighting them.

A memorandum in which the Russian Federation answered questions put by the European Court of Human Rights states that of the 665 people taken to hospital, six people died, this coming to 0.9 percent. Lawyer for the victims Igor Trunov maintains that 71 people died

Russia’s President Putin has spoken approvingly of “positive moves” in the teaching of history. It would appear that whether or not ones hair stands on end reading parts of modern history depends on … the Ministry of Education

A mass opposition protest took place on 14 October in Belarus for the first time in six months. According to its organizers, up to 7 thousand people took part in the “European March”.

This address written for Amnesty International in Italy to mark the first anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya’s death, like Anna’s own voice, cries out to be heard

Recommended reading for those who think nothing has changed in Ukraine, and for those who need reminding that civic society in Russian and Belarus needs support

A Russian court hearing did not take place on 10 October. As a news item this has certain problems which may well be what the Russian authorities are hoping for Mikhail Trepashkin remains in illegal solitary confinement

The Russian Human Rights Ombudsperson has called on the regions forcing children to study the subject to remove the compulsory element however thus far without success and parents are planning to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights

On Sunday 7 October meetings in memory of the journalist and human rights defender murdered a year ago were held in Russia and in many other countries