Grave procedural irregularities join the ever increasing list of highly dubious elements in this case

In Moscow law enforcement officers have begun detaining ethnic Georgians, Ludmilla Alexeeva, Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group reports.

Despite the provider’s complaint to the FSB having supposedly prompted this case, the provider’s representative was unable to give any testimony about the content of Zelenyak’s communications

A careful analysis of the case of the Novosibirsk man charged with inciting emnity towards Russians on a Ukrainian forum has brought to light some highly interesting details

New technology and old tactics: The trial of Taras Zelenyak, a Russian national facing imprisonment for negative comments about Russians on a Ukrainian Internet forum could set a very dangerous precedent in Russia and conceivably beyond.

The Russian human rights activist’s lawyer plans to lodge an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights

Amnesty International has condemned the imprisonment of the human rights activist for organizing a picket in memory of the Victims of Beslan and called for his immediate release

The Judge deemed that Ponomaryov was mainly guilty of the fact that “knowing which country we live in, he organized a picket without having permission to do so”

The Russian security service continues its unprecedented campaign against Russian scientists accusing them of passing on “top secret information” to foreign intelligence services. The said information has, admittedly, long been described in university textbooks

The ex-candidate in the Belarusian presidential elections, sentenced to 5.5 years imprisonment for his part in a peaceful demonstration on 25 March, is protesting against the lawlessness of the Lukashenko regime

Human rights organizations are adamant that the extradition of the "Ivanovo Uzbeks" would be a grave violation of human rights, yet the last appeal court has already upheld the Prosecutor’s decision in 11 of the cases

Another disturbing estimate published by the Committee to Protect Journalists is that seven of every ten reporters killed were writing material in which the actions of the authorities were subjected to harsh criticism

Petition to the Russian Human Rights Ombudsperson on behalf of the Novosibirsk forum user charged with inciting inter-ethnic emnity through his unflattering references to Russians

In Minsk on 16 September thousands lit candles in memory of those who disappeared and called for an end to dictatorship (updated)

Thousands of Belarusians today honoured the memory of Viktor Gonchar and Anatoly Krasovsky who disappeared in Belarus on 16 September 1999, exactly seven years ago

The Radio Svoboda Correspondent was sentenced in August to 6 years imprisonment together with two human rights activists in a case that provoked outrage from human rights organizations

Taras Zelenyak is being charged over commentaries he is alleged to have given on an Internet forum site

One of the inhabitants of the tent city on October Square erected after the presidential elections in March, Sivchik had fled to Ukraine and only returned to Minsk a month ago

The Belarusian Supreme Court has refused to consider the collective citizens’ appeal signed by 6,000 Belarusians to have the outcome of the presidential elections declared invalid

Police with dogs met those who arrived at Lubyanka Square in Moscow to remember and mourn the 333 children and adults killed in Beslan exactly 2 years ago