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Liquidating the SOVA Center: The Official End of Religious Freedom in Russia

By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of freedom of religion remain in Russia.

Young Crimean Tatar illegally imprisoned in Russia on ‘treason’ charges for trying to visit gravely ill father

Russia’s FSB have concocted absurd ‘treason through spying’ charges against 25-year-old Leniye Umerova, five months after she was first detained while trying to visit her father, who is suffering from cancer

FSB behind the torment and endless stream of sentences in Russia against 25-year Crimean Tatar

There are strong grounds for fearing that the FSB are using administrative arrest on fake charges to drag out Leniye Umerova’s imprisonment while they fabricate criminal charges against her

Russian school textbooks delete Kyiv and 'explain the inevitability’ of Russia’s war against Ukraine

The material pushes a seriously distorted, and often openly false, picture of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Notorious fake experts deployed in 'trial' of Memorial head for criticizing Russia's war against Ukraine

Concern that Oleg Orlov, Co-Chair of Memorial, could face imprisonment for his criticism of Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated since it became known who has provided the supposed ‘expert assessments’ of Orlov’s words

Young Crimean Tatar held hostage in Russia after trying to visit her gravely ill father in occupied Crimea

Russian officials have fabricated one administrative arrest after another to keep 25-year-old Leniye Umerova imprisoned, and there are fears that they may be planning to concoct criminal charges

Russia plans life sentences for charges used against Ukrainian political prisoners and opponents of its war in Ukraine

While Russia is releasing men convicted of grave crimes if they agree to fight in Ukraine, it is introducing new legislation radically increasing the sentences often used against Crimean Tatar and other Ukrainian political prisoners

Ukrainian officials prevent former political prisoner held in Russia from returning to Ukraine

After being seized by the Russian FSB, savagely tortured and imprisoned for six and a half years, all Andriy Zakhtei wants is to get back to Ukraine, to his wife and their daughter

Russia stages mass raids on Nobel Peace Prize laureate, brings criminal charges against Memorial Head for condemning its war against Ukraine

Russia has carried out mass raids and searches of the office of the Memorial Society and its members, with its co-chair, Oleg Orlov facing criminal charges and a likely prison sentence for supposedly ‘discrediting the Russian armed forces’.

Teachers, colleagues, neighbours face Soviet era denunciations for opposing war against Ukraine in occupied Crimea and Russia

Just as in the worst years of Soviet terror, it has become dangerous to openly speak of the crimes Russia is committing in Ukraine, or even shout ‘Glory to Ukraine’.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and his Viasna colleagues sentenced to heavy prison terms in Belarus

This unjust punishment comes in retaliation for 25 years of their human rights work in Belarus

Russia sends convicted prisoner mercenaries to fight in Ukraine and imposes up to 15-year sentences for ‘discrediting’ them

A bill being rushed through parliament extends the scope of draconian legislation criminalizing telling the truth about Russia's war against Ukraine to cover hardened criminals recruited as mercenaries from Russian prisons