The journalist stresses he can feel no remorse for haivng simply photographed a peaceful protest action, and describes gratuitous aggression from the Russian riot police

Zakhidov’s colleagues and human rights activists are convinced that the case against him has been orchestrated by the regime which the journalist has sharply criticized.

Ukraine endorses the EU’s criticism of Aleksandr Kazulin’s prison sentence as political motivated, and the call to release all political prisioners

The journalist is emphatic that he was arrested purely because he had a video camera in his hand

In commenting the charges pressed by the authorities, Lukashenko’s opponents point to a “crisis of genre” in the Belarusian enforcement agencies

On Belarusian Solidarity Day the demonstrators carried pictures of political prisoners and of those who have disappeared without trace under Lukashenko’s rule

On this Belarusian Solidarity Day a call to honour the memory of all victims of regimes which assume they can act with impunity and to remember we have the power to prove them wrong

A call for the G8 Summit to pay due attention to human rights violations in Belarus and for the hosting country, Russia, to stop supporting the dictatorship

We pass on an Urgent Action from Amnesty International - your help is needed!

The new amendments would allow the Russian security service to “liquidate” Akhmed Zakaev, granted political asylum by the UK in 2003 but accused by the Russian authorities of abetting terrorists

The law envisages harsh penalities for what is classified "extremism", with the classification not only broad, but also disturbingly loose and subject to interpretation

A reminder of those who need our active support

The author believes that Ukraine’ success as a democratic country would seriously undermine Russia’s increasingly authoritarian rule. By helping Ukraine, therefore, one will be helping Russia

The new provisions, if accepted, would do little to curb real extremism, but would seriously endanger civil liberties