Karina Tsurkan, a former senior manager at Inter RAO, is a political prisoner

Memorial Human Rights Centre, in accordance with international guidelines defining the term ‘political prisoner,’ considers Karina Tsurkan a political prisoner. She has been deprived of her liberty in violation of her right

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Bagavudin Omarov, a Muslim from Dagestan charged with organising a cell of the banned At-Takfir wal-Hijra, is a political prisoner, Memorial says

Memorial Human Rights Centre, in accordance with international guidelines defining the term ‘political prisoner,’ considers Bagavudin Omarov a political prisoner. A Muslim from Dagestan, Omarov has been

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How do the authorities use the article of the Russian Criminal Code on terrorist groups against political activists?

Our report analyses in detail the most prominent cases in which this increasingly popular article of the Russian Criminal Code has been used against political activists

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The prosecution of Sochi human rights activist Semyon Simonov is unlawful and politically motivated, Memorial says

Memorial Human Rights Centre considers Semyon Simonov a victim of unlawful and politically motivated prosecution. He is being prosecuted solely for his human rights activities and non-violent exercise of his

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Four Crimean Tatars charged with participation in the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir are political prisoners, Memorial says

Ruslan Mesutov, Lenur Khalilov, Ruslan Nagayev and Eldar Kantimirov, all from the town of Alushta in Crimea, are being prosecuted under ‘terrorism’ articles of the

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Murder of press photographer Andrea Rocchelli and human rights activist Andrei Mironov: preliminary results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the investigation

Murder of press photographer Andrea Rocchelli and human rights activist Andrei Mironov: preliminary results of an assessment of the effectiveness of the investigation Online presentation

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Zum Urteil gegen Jurij Dmitriev

Jurij Dmitriev wurde heute zu 13 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Die Anklagepunkte, in denen ihn die vorige Instanz, das Stadtgericht von Petrozavodsk, freigesprochen hatte, wurden zur erneuten

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Defendant in Perm ‘Putin mannequin’ case is a political prisoner, Memorial says

Memorial Human Rights Centre considers Aleksandr Shabarchin, an opposition activist from Perm convicted in the case of the ‚Putin mannequin,‘ a political prisoner. We consider

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Memorial declares one more participant in the March 2019 protest in Ingushetia a political prisoner

Memorial Human Rights Centre considers Magomed Khamkhoyev, a defendant in the ‘Ingush case’ (a prosecution of a number of opposition activists), a political prisoner. We believe the criminal prosecution of Khamkhoyev is based solely on his

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Wie Russland ukrainische Bürger von der Krim verbannt

Kyjiw verlangt von Moskau, seine Übersiedlungspolitik bezüglich so mancher ukrainischen Bürger von der Halbinsel Krim einzustellen.  Die Rechtsanwaltschaft der Autonomen Republik Krim, heute im Exil

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