Freedom of Assembly
Category: Freedom of Assembly
Russia has started enforcing its ban on ‘fake n...
Views 40 Russian officials in Arkhangelsk have filed the country’s first police report against an individual for spreading illegal “fake news.” According to the news website zona.media, the activist Elena Kalinina used her VKontakte account to promote an unpermitted protest against a local landfill. Police officers reasoned that demonstrations shouldn’t take place without city permits,
Read More16-year-old Crimean Tatar sentenced for removin...
Views 76 16-year-old Abduraman Abduveliev has received a 6-month restricted liberty sentence for taking down three Russian flags in the village of Kurske. The teenager was prosecuted for supposed ‘desecration of the Russian flag’ under Article 329 of Russia’s criminal code which, like the flags, is being illegally used on occupied territory.
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Oleg Sentsov’s will was published during ...
Views 139 The film director’s sister, Natalya Kaplan, has released a will drawn up by her brother during his hunger strike in a Russian penal colony. The text of the will and a photo of the original were published by Gromadske. Sentsov specifically writes that in the event of his death that he bequeaths the rights
Read MoreSentsov won the Polish prize called Pro Dignita...
Views 197 Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, won the Polish prize Pro Dignitate Humana. This was announced on October 23 by the Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputovich, during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavel Klimkin.
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The court in Crimea left the defendants of the ...
Views 698 The Kremlin’s Supreme Court, controlled by the Kremlin, dismissed an appeal by lawyers to extend the preventive measure to the defendants in the “Vedzhie Kashka case” Kazim Ametov, Bekir Degermendzhi, Ruslan Trubach and Asan Chapukh, Krym. Realii reports with reference to its own correspondent.
Read MoreThe Act on Fees for a peaceful assembly will in...
Views 399 Alexander Sedov, an expert of the Crimean human rights’ group, believes that supplementing the Russian Code of Administrative Offenses with article 20.2.3. will give the occupying authorities of Crimea new leverage on local activists, as written by “Krym. Realii”.
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The employee of Amnesty International was kidna...
Views 192 In Ingushetia, an Amnesty International researcher Oleg Kozlovsky was kidnapped. He was monitoring the protests against the transfer of the land to Chechnya. As reported on the website of the international organization. On October 6, the day after Kozlovsky arrived in Magas, a man knocked on his hotel room door. Using false information
Read MoreThe details of the morning search in Belogorsk ...
Views 988 Employees of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) on the morning of October 11 carried out investigative activities in a private house in Belogorsk in order to identify “illegals”. This was reported by the public association “Crimean Solidarity”.
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In Crimea, special force operatives conduct sea...
Views 117 On the morning of September 4, several residents of Crimea have been searched and detained. Civil activist Marlen Mustafayev was taken to the Crimean Internal Affrairs Ministry headquarters, Zarema Kulametova was taken to a house where entrepreneur Abdulla Yakubov was being searched. This is reported by the Crimean Solidarity project. The search of
Read MoreThe court in Samara confirmed the arrest of a p...
Views 139 The Samara Regional Court found the arrest lawful of a pensioner Lyubov Kuzaeva, who is accused of several extremist articles. This was reported in the International Human Rights Group “Agora” referring to the lawyer Timur Miftahutdinov, representing the interests of Kuzaeva. The court upheld the decision of the Samara district court to arrest
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“Happy train”, “Homeland! Fre...
Views 129 The authorities of Russian cities one by one deny the supporters of the political opponent Aleksei Navalny in carrying out protests against raising the retirement age on a combined voting day on the 9th of September. Refusals have already come from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod and Penza. Some protests are still allowed
Read MoreThe court dismissed the case of a pensioner acc...
Views 92 In Nizhny Tagil, the court dismissed the case of pensioner Irina Kutsenok, to which a protocol was drawn up due to the invitation of fellow villagers to a meeting with journalists of the Vesti program, the human rights project Apologia Protesta reports. The court decided that there is no composition of offenses in
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