Leonid Razvozzhaev, a Russian opposition figure has been abducted minutes after seeking political asylum via the UNHCR in Kyiv. One of the other opposition figures questioned in Moscow with him is now in jail charged with organizing mass riots

Acting on behalf of Natalia Magnitskaya, the Open Society Justice Initiative argues that Russian law enforcement authorities manipulated the criminal justice process to silence her son, after he exposed a $230m tax fraud involving officials of Russia’s powerful Interior Ministry.

Konstantin Lebedev, an aide to opposition Left Front movement leader Sergei Udaltsov, has been formally charged with plotting to organize mass riots and could be jailed for up to 10 years.

A criminal case has been opened against the leader of the Russian opposition’s Left Front movement, Sergei Udaltsov, and several other opposition leaders

If Russian investigators have their way, Mikhail Kosenko could soon be locked up in a psychiatric clinic. Kosenko and 16 other Russians are accused of instigating "mass disorders" and assaulting police officials during a May 6 rally in Moscow

A Moscow court has freed one of the convicted women from the punk band Pussy Riot but upheld two-year jail terms for the other two

Reporters Without Borders condemns a ruling by a provincial appeal court upholding a lower court ruling under which newspaper reporter Lukpan Akhmedyarov would have to pay a local official 5 million tenges (30,000 euros) in damages.

Concern is mounting over the well-being of jailed opposition figures in Belarus amid reports of prison abuse, including threats of torture, rape, and murder.

At a time when legislative amendments impose new restrictions on civil society and the Russian government is seeking to marginalize human rights groups, a senior HRW researcher has received a series of text messages making direct and implicit threats to her

A freshly adopted report by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe strongly criticizes Russia, highlighting limitations on free speech, political meddling in the judiciary, and multiple violations of human rights.

Belarusian authorities should immediately end all harassment and intimidation of the political prisoners Ales Bialiatski and Zmitser Dashkevich, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday

Azerbaijani opposition activists are routinely detained on the pretext of resisting police, giving the authorities 15 days to try to build a case against them

The political activist says that the authorities believe that he has been frightened enough and will now keep his head low. He says that he has no intention of doing this and will continue to promote Belarus’ national symbols.

While throughout the world, people were sending their greetings and words of support to Ales Bialiatski, Head of the Viasna Human Rights Centre, the Belarusian prison authorities marked his birthday in a particularly mean-minded way

Alexander Lebedev, who has financed a newspaper critical of the Kremlin and supported the opposition, has been charged with hooliganism and assault for punching a fellow billionaire during a television talk show

Ales Bialiatski, imprisoned Head of the Viasna Human Rights Centre is 50 today and is spending his birthday in captivity. PLEASE JOIN in sending him birthday greetings

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says it has "serious concerns" over weekend parliamentary elections in Belarus in which not a single opposition candidate won a seat in parliament

Russia’s FSB [Security Service] is proposing to introduce criminal liability not merely for divulging state secrets, but for receiving them

Memorial will not take part in action aimed at destroying Russian society and will not disseminate knowingly false information about itself by calling itself a foreign agent organization as the recent law passed in Russia demands

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will end its activities in Russia following a decision by Moscow, according to U.S. officials