"Reporters without Frontiers" have labelled as "absurd, unjust and shameful" the sentences of 6 and 7 years passed on journalist Ogulsapar Muradova and two human rights activists

Human rights organizations appeal for help in finding Elina Ersenova , abducted on 17 August after informing a human rights organization of threats against her by Kadyrov’s security service

No explanation has been given for Ogulsapar Muradova’s arrest and she has not been allowed to see a lawyer

One of the activists of the Belarusian civic initiative “Partnerstvo”, imprisoned for wanting to monitor the elections, released yesterday describes her experiences and her inability to do nothing when “such things are happening in the country”

The Supreme Court has used a feeble pretext to get rid of the "Belarusian Factory of Thought”

The appellants are calling on the Supreme Court to declare the results invalid and to ensure new elections are held

Two young Belarusians – Nikolai Astreiko and Timofei Dranchuk – face penal colony for seeking to ensure free and fair elections in Belarus

The Ivanovo Uzbeks threatened with deportation have been given a temporary reprieve since the European Court of Human Rights is considering their case

The Prosecutor General has decided to extradite the men despite the fact that all have been given mandate refugee status by the UHHCR

Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld the sentence passed on the murderers of 9-year-old Khursheda Sultonova

As reported already, these young people were trying to organize observers to monitor the Belarusian presidential elections

Prominent human rights activists in Moscow fear that the tax demands made on the "International Protection Centre" are a sign of a new offensive by the authorities on NGOs now that the G8 Summit is over

More about the arrest of Ukrainian journalist, Maxim Butkevych, during the recent G8 Summit in St. Petersburg

The Russian Prosecutor General and the court have thus ignored the decision of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees on providing the “Ivanovo Uzbeks” with international protection

Human rights activists believe that 66-year-old Dadakhon Hasan is really being tried for a song he wrote about the brutal crushing of the peaceful demonstration in Andijon in May 2005

Among the many critics of the law is one of the authors of the current law on the media who believes that the amendments to the Law will not help combat real extremism in Russian, and are really aimed at fighting political opponents of the present regime