Freedom of Assembly

Category: Freedom of Assembly

“Happy train”, “Homeland! Fre...

August 31, 2018

Views 132 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

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The court dismissed the case of a pensioner acc...

August 30, 2018

Views 99 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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Freedom of Assembly in Russia in 2016. Review o...

June 21, 2018

Views 322 Criminalisation of the protest continues in Russia: the legislation is moving towards the creation of lists of the undesirable and the unreliable, which, probably, will soon be arrested simply for being in these lists. The so-called “Yarovaya Package”1 is a serious attempt to equate the authorities’ criticism not with extremism, but with terrorism, and

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