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Russia: Court to decide on sham case against Chechnya’s leading human rights defender Oyub Titiev
18.03.2019
If Oyub Titiev is sent to prison, it will demonstrate the Russian authorities’ total disregard for human rights and the rule of law in Chechnya - Natalia Prilutskaya, Amnesty International’s Russia Researcher
Putin signs law to stop soldiers divulging proof for the Hague about Russia’s war against Ukraine
12.03.2019
Had the law now passed been in force in July 2014, crucial information about the secret transportation to Ukraine of a Russian BUK missile carrier and its use in downing Malaysian Airliner MH17 would have never come to light
Russia rewards Berkut officers who tried to crush Euromaidan, while revenging itself on Maidan political prisoner Kolomiyets
12.03.2019
While ex-Berkut officers, involved in trying to crush Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests, have been given awards in Russian-occupied Sevastopol ‘for courage and heroism’, Russia has ensured the harshest of prison conditions for Ukrainian political prisoner Andriy Kolomiyets, sentenced by a Russian-controlled court to 10 years’ imprisonment for being on Maidan in 2014
Detained in Putin’s Russia for shouting that Stalin should burn in hell
06.03.2019
Two Russian activists were detained, one very roughly, in Moscow on 5 March for marking the 56th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin by hurling broken flowers at his tomb near the Kremlin wall, with one shouting that the “executioner” should “burn in hell”
Crucial hearing in Russia cancelled to block gravely ill Ukrainian student Hryb’s doctor testifying
19.02.2019
The latest ‘court hearing’ in Russia’s trial of Pavlo Hryb lasted all of two minutes on 18 February. Neither the prosecutor nor the interpreter had turned up in what was clearly a planned move to prevent Hryb’s doctor publicly spelling out how Russia is placing the young man’s life in jeopardy
Russian could face terrorism charges for defending Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov
18.02.2019
Since the internationally condemned charges concocted against Sentsov and three other Ukrainians were of ‘terrorism’, Viktor Kotov, a municipal council deputy and activist, could face criminal prosecution for supposed ‘justification of terrorism’.
Ukrainian human rights observers seized in Kazakhstan
15.02.2019
Two Ukrainian human rights activists have disappeared in Astana while on a mission investigating cases suspected of being politically motivated
Economics textbook rejected in Russia for not fostering “love for the Motherland”
11.02.2019
The author of a series of Russian school textbooks on economics has had one of the books rejected for lack of material fostering patriotism and for questions that might give rise to ’negative, unconstructive discussion’
Dennis Christensen gets 6 years in first Russian sentence of a Jehovah’s Witness since Soviet times
06.02.2019
A Russian court in Oryol has sentenced Dennis Christensen to six years’ imprisonment for practising his faith
Russia makes its law retroactive in order to jail abducted Ukrainian soldier
05.02.2019
Three Russian judges have confirmed the four-year sentence passed on Oleksandr Shumkov, ignoring not only compelling evidence that he was abducted to Russia, but also at least two basic legal principle
Russian court orders investigation into Ukrainian student Hryb’s account of torture
04.02.2019
A Russian court has ordered a check to be carried out into Pavlo Hryb’s allegations of torture after viewing a video showing injuries which the 20-year-old Ukrainian student says were caused by having his hands bound for a long time in fishing line.
ECHR puts off examination of Sentsov & Kolchenko vs. Russia essentially for political reasons
30.01.2019
Earlier reports that the European Court of Human Rights had restored the ‘priority status’ assigned to the case of Russia’s Ukrainian political prisoners Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko were, as suspected, premature. One mistake was rectified, yet the Court is still refusing to consider the men’s applications until it has examined Ukraine’s intergovernmental case against Russia over Crimea.
Telling the truth about Stalin and the Great Terror gets historians arrested in Russia
29.01.2019
Although Yuri Dmitriev and Sergei Koltyrin are purportedly facing ‘non-political’ charges, it was no accident that, after Koltyrin’s arrest, a public discussion on the subject both men were involved in, was cancelled. Documenting the crimes and the perpetrators of Stalin’s Terror has become dangerous in Putin’s Russia .
‘Open Russia’ activist could face 6-year sentence in first criminal prosecution for membership of ‘undesirable NGO’
23.01.2019
Although the arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko appears part of a general attack on Mikhail Khodorkovsy’s Open Russia NGO, it presents a dangerous precedent with ramifications for other NGOs defending human rights in Russia and occupied Crimea
Abducted Ukrainian hostage was likely tricked by Russian FSB pretending to be his Internet ‘girlfriend’
22.01.2019
Pavlo Hryb was just 19 when he was abducted by the FSB from Belarus after going there, he thought, to meet a young woman he had met, and fallen in love with, on the Internet.
Putin’s billionaire crony under sanctions for Crimea gets huge grant ‘to fight corruption’
14.01.2019
A business owned by Russian oligarch Arkadiy Rotenberg has ‘won a tender’ worth 46 million roubles for holding ‘anti-corruption measures’ in 20 regions of Russia
Russia bulldozes vast amounts of food while tens of millions live below the poverty line
09.01.2019
It is three and a half years since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the destruction of food products ‘smuggled’ into Russia despite Moscow’s ban on such imports in retaliation for western sanctions. Despite widespread outrage over the move when tens of millions are living below the poverty line, the barbaric destruction has continued unabated. .
Ukrainian political prisoner jailed for fictitious ‘attack on Crimea’ disappears in Russia
08.01.2019
It is three weeks since Yevhen Panov’s family received any information about the recognized political prisoner’s whereabouts
Russia has been taking Ukrainians hostage since 2014. Now they’ve seized an American
04.01.2019
Little is known about the arrest in Moscow of US citizen Paul Whelan. Enough, however, to see disturbing similarities with Russia’s seizure of Ukrainian journalist Roman Sushchenko in 2016
Unending solitary confinement for Ukrainian hostage seized in Crimea & tortured in Russia
03.01.2019
Ukrainian political prisoner Valentin Vyhivsky has been held in a Russian punishment cell for the last 10 months in appalling conditions and without any telephone contact with his family
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