They urge to call on the Russian authorities to open a criminal investigation into the cases of torture and extrajudicial executions

Artyom Zagrebelny was sentenced to five years in prison for violence against law enforcement officers who attacked him in the lift of the apartment building where he lived without showing their ID

Prilutsky links his criminal prosecution with his opposition activities as a member of the Belaruskali strike committee

Press-release and Q&A

Anti-extremism police were involved in fabricating the criminal prosecution

The 10 Muslims were sentenced to terms ranging from two years to six and a half years in a general regime penal colony on charges of extremism solely on account of their involvement in Tablighi Jamaat

Maria Alyokhina, Dmitry Baranovsky, Anastasia Vasilyeva, Nikolai Lyaskin, Oleg Navalny, Liubov Sobol, Oleg Stepanov, Liusya Shtein, Konstantin Yankauskas and Kira Yarmysh stand accused of urging people to participate in peaceful protests on 23 January.

Children’s martial arts instructor Isya Ragimov has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of organising the activities of a terrorist organisation

Back in 2020 they were illegally detained and tortured in Grozny

Pavel Zelensky is being prosecuted for inciting extremism. We believe that, despite the controversial nature of Zelensky’s emotional response, there is no evidence of an offence in his words and the prosecution should be dropped.