This attack and abduction would appear to indicate a serious escalation in pressure on human rights groups and the media – silence now will be carte blanche

The Co-Chair of the organization “Voice of Beslan” is facing administrative liability for placing a “road sign” reading “Putin’s Course” pointing to the school in Beslan where 331 people died in 2004, more than half of them children

Warm congratulations to our Russian colleagues, great respect for a couple in Vladivostok who didn’t turn away when help was needed, and some serious questions as to how representatives of law enforcement agencies could have been involved in this planned illegal deportation

Mukhammedsolykh Abutov has suffered persecution already. He is seeking asylum in Russia. He must not be sent back to his torturers in Uzbekistan. PLEASE help us by using any media contacts you have ensure that this letter reaches those in Russia who have the power to prevent a grave injustice from being committed.

It is very important at this time that media attention is focused on Mikhail Trepashkin. We were not able to achieve his release from a politically motivated sentence. At least let’s ensure that the public eye keeps him safe now as his term of imprisonment comes to an end

The results of this survey by the respected Levada Centre found that while 72 % believed that human rights are violated in Russia, the number of people who considered that Russia has political prisoners had fallen since 2004 against the percentage of “don’t knows”

It is crucial that media and public attention are focused on any such attempts to infringe Russian legislation and its international commitments, and to send an asylum seeker back to a country where his life could be in danger.

The Chief Editor of one of the few remaining hard-hitting newspapers in Russia (a branch of the paper Anna Politkovskaya worked for) links the closure with the coming elections

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.