Four editors of the student magazine DOXA are political prisoners

19.05.2021

Journalists Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metyolkin, and Natalya Tyshkevich have been charged with involving minors in protests on the basis of a video that called for an end to intimidation of students and schoolchildren

Andrei Kazimirau, a Belarusian citizen facing deportation from Russia for participating in anti-Lukashenka protests, is a political prisoner

17.05.2021

Andrei Kazimirau was detained in Moscow and remanded in custody on charges brought by the Belarusian authorities of rioting

Valery Yevsin, who took part in a protest on 23 January, has been sentenced to two years in prison and is a political prisoner

12.05.2021

According to the Investigative Committee, Valery Yevsin pushed a metal barrier towards a police officer

Aleksei Vorsin, head of Navalny’s office in Khabarovsk, is a political prisoner

06.05.2021

Aleksei Vorsin is being prosecuted under the so-called ‘Dadin’ article of the Russian Criminal Code following the protests of 23 January 2021

The criminal prosecution of opposition activist Gleb Maryasov is politically motivated and unlawful

05.05.2021

Gleb Maryasov, a Krasnoyarsk resident and member of the Libertarian Party, has been charged with blocking roads at a protest rally in support of Aleksei Navalny on 23 January in Moscow

The prosecution of three Moscow activists on charges of vandalism is unlawful and politically motivated

23.04.2021

In protest against the verdict in the New Greatness trial, Olga Misik, Igor Basharimov, and Ivan Vorobyovsky splashed paint on the entrance to the Prosecutor General’s Office and put up posters on the fence outside the Lyublino district court in Moscow

Salman Tepsurkayev, who was abducted, is a political prisoner

22.04.2021

Salman Tepsurkayev, a 19-year-old moderator of the oppositionist Telegram channel 1ADAT that reported on human rights violations in Chechnya, was abducted in early September 2020

Oleh Prykhodko, a resident of Crimea convicted of attempting to perpetrate an act of terrorism, is a political prisoner

21.04.2021

Previously, Oleh Prykhodko was repeatedly prosecuted under administrative law for his pro-Ukrainian views

Muso Dzhalolov, a Tajikistani national convicted on charges of involvement in the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, is a political prisoner

01.04.2021

In October 2020, Muso Dzhalolov, who lived in St Petersburg, was sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime penal colony for involvement in a terrorist organisation

A DEVASTATING DECADE. Landmark Report by Russian Human Rights Defenders documents violations in Syria on 10-year anniversary of war

31.03.2021

Online press conference, Friday 2nd April, 12pm Moscow time (GMT+3)

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