Freedom of Assembly
Category: Freedom of Assembly
Russian actor sentenced to 3.5 years in prison,...
Views 51 Moscow Tverskoy District Court Judge Alexey Krivoruchko has sentenced Pavel Ustinov, a young up-and-coming actor, to 3.5 years in prison for supposedly attacking a member of Russia’s National Guard at a protest on August 3. Prosecutors asked the court to incarcerate him for six years.
Read MorePolitical prisoners: events in Warsaw
Views 21 Russian political prisoners in 2019 and the role for the OSCE Convenor: Human Rights Center “Memorial” Working language: English, Russian 19 September, 08:15-09:45 Venue: Meeting Room 3 Warsaw National Stadium (PGE Narodowy), Aleja Poniatowskiego 1, GATE 1, 2nd floor Summary: According to Memorial, Russia’s most respected human rights organization, there are more than 300 political prisoners in the country.
Read MoreRussia has started enforcing its ban on ‘fake n...
Views 61 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 116 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.
Read MoreOleg Sentsov’s will was published during ...
Views 174 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 229 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.
Read MoreThe court in Crimea left the defendants of the ...
Views 747 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 419 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”.
Read MoreThe employee of Amnesty International was kidna...
Views 206 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 1,007 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”.
Read MoreIn Crimea, special force operatives conduct sea...
Views 142 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 167 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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