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The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022.
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Court in Russia ignores torture in Donbas, abduction and zero evidence for Ukrainian’s 10-year sentence
06.04.2021
The lack of any grounds for the charges the FSB brought against 50-year-old Oleksandr Marchenko also proved no problem
Russia blocks military archives in further effort to distort the truth about World War II
31.03.2021
Russia’s Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu has issued orders which effectively block almost all access to Russian military archives from the period of the Second World War
Ukrainian tortured in Donetsk concentration camp, then sentenced to 10 years in Russia
23.03.2021
A first appeal hearing has taken place in the Russian city of Krasnodar in a case that is likely to prove most incriminating for Moscow when it reaches the European Court of Human Rights, not to mention the International Criminal Court
Belarus KGB arrest journalist who identified the Ukrainian Berkut helping Lukashenka regime
16.03.2021
Dzianis Ivashin has been placed in detention after exposing the deployment of Russian fighters, involved in Russia’s invasion of Crimea and war in Donbas, as well as ex-Berkut officers, in propping up the regime of Aleksandr Lukashenka
Russia destroys major human rights NGO with new ‘foreign agent’ restrictions
03.03.2021
Moscow has finally achieved its end and brought about the dissolution of one of the country’s most renowned human rights NGOs: ‘For Human Rights’, defending the ever-mounting numbers of political prisoners in Russia and occupied Crimea
Russia exploits war veterans for offensive against opposition activists and historical truth
01.03.2021
The recent use of a World War II veteran for Russia’s politically motivated persecution of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has whetted the appetite of those Russian ruling party politicians responsible for legislating repression
Threats against Crimean political prisoner sentenced to 14 years for pleading innocent
19.02.2021
Russian prison authorities are effectively threatening reprisals against Oleksiy Bessarabov because he is refusing to hand over the Ukrainian government’s grant to him as a political prisoner in order to pay a preposterous fine
First sentence in Russia against activist from an ‘undesirable organization’
19.02.2021
41-year-old Anastasia Shevchenko, who has spent over 2 years under house arrest, was the first person to face criminal charges for peaceful activism as a member of Open Russia
Russia reverts to worst Soviet times in reprisal sentence against historian of the Terror Yury Dmitriev
17.02.2021
A Russian cassation court has ignored glaring infringements of the right to a fair trial and upheld a 13-year sentence against world-renowned historian and head of the Karelia Memorial Society, Yury Dmitriev.
Exposing the ‘experts' who secretly help to imprison Crimean and Russian political prisoners
09.02.2021
An important new initiative has begun exposing those academics providing the dodgy ‘expert assessments’ most often used to convict Crimean or Russian political prisoners on fabricated charges
Russia threatens criminal prosecution over calls to impose sanctions
02.02.2021
Over the past year, Russia has already introduced criminal liability and very steep sentences against those seeking an end to Russia’s occupation of Crimea. The proposed new legislation would add yet another weapon to the arsenal.
Not just Navalny. EU sanctions needed over 18-year sentences against Crimean political prisoners
27.01.2021
Why is the EU confining itself to deep concern when Russia is sentencing Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners to 18 years, and when new laws are set to still further crush any freedom in occupied Crimea and Russia?.
New Russian offensive to deprive imprisoned Russian Historian of the Terror Yury Dmitriev of his lawyer
26.01.2021
The Supreme Court in Karelia has upheld reprisals against a lawyer who rightly refused to take part in depriving Russian historian and political prisoner, Yury Dmitriev, of his lawyer
Russia sentences mathematician to six years for refusing to plead guilty
19.01.2021
Russia’s persecution of Azat Miftakhov iis almost certainly linked with his anarchist views, however the 6-year sentence handed down on 18 January also looks like punishment for refusing to admit to something he did not do
“Now and then the flame dies down, but solidarity is a stream of sparks”
18.01.2021
Moving interview with Ilya Shakursky, an antifascist political prisoner serving a huge sentence in Russia on charges of involvement in ta fictitious ‘Network’
Abducted, tortured and spending seventh Christmas in Russian solitary confinement
07.01.2021
Valentin Vyhivsky has now been imprisoned in Russia for over six years, after being abducted from occupied Crimea and held incommunicado for eight months – time that the FSB spent on their specific ‘methods of persuasion’
International human rights award foils Russian attempts to discredit imprisoned Historian of the Terror
15.12.2020
Russian attempts to discredit Yury Dmitriev are proving increasingly futile with the renowned historian of the Soviet Terror named as one of the 15 laureates of the prestigious Franco-German Prize for Human Rights for 2020.
Russia sentences Ukrainian ex-footballer to 12 years on secret ‘spying’ charges
08.12.2020
The total secrecy around Vasyl Vasylenko’s trial iis of particular concern since his arrest was originally on different charges and was concealed by Russia’s FSB for nine months
Russia: New legislative initiatives: a threat to NGOs, freedom of assembly, education and more
04.12.2020
The new rules proposed in the above bills, should they become law, will impose even tougher – indeed, nearly total – government control over Russia’s civil society.
Russian legislators launch multiple hits against civil society in occupied Crimea and Russia
02.12.2020
A record four draft bills are currently awaiting ‘consideration’ in Russia’s State Duma with all evidently aimed at crushing the activities of Russian NGOs and further stifling freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly
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