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The youngest of them is 16 years old today. Following the Russian prisoner exchange, the OVD organisation currently counts 2747 politically motivated criminal proceedings, including 1015 against opponents of the war, 131 of which were against children and young people.

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The International Society for Human Rights in Frankfurt is fighting for political prisoners in Russia. Some 131 children and young people are currently behind bars because of their anti-war stance. The long prison sentences have one main purpose.

Putin is showing his real face here, his real face with total severity. The goal is to intimidate young opponents of war, opponents of war in general.

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Moldova’s well-managed presidential run-off offered voters genuine choice

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Election manipulation in Georgia

Georgian IGFM section observes parliamentary elections ISHR: physical attacks, intimidation and bribery at polling stations Massive election manipulation in Georgia Frankfurt am Main, 27 October 2024 - The parliamentary elections ...
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ISHR Human Rights Day 2024 Webinar on “Equality”

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ISHR Newsletter October 2024

Dear members, friends, and partners of the International Society for Human Rights, the last few weeks have been full of events of global significance – both extremely worrying developments but ...
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Schoolboy Arseny Turbin, 16, lost 17 kilogrammes in Moscow pre-trial detention centre

A teenager has been sentenced in Russia to five years in a penal colony for allegedly taking part in the Russian Freedom Legion. Arseny Turbin, a 16-year-old schoolboy, who was ...
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Ivan Agrusov’s 100th anniversary

The humble maker Ivan Ivanovich Agrusov Ivan Ivanovich Agrusov †, the founder and long-standing chairman of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), was a humble man who never put ...
Armenia

The third block seminars of the media actor training program

Within the framework of the "Training of Media Actors" program, another series of seminars was held in Shirak region. For more than twenty novice journalists and activists who applied to ...
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INVITATION TO THE PRESS CONFERENCE: Commitment to Ukrainian civilian prisoners

Invitation to the press conference: Commitment to Ukrainian civilian prisoners Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, there have been blatant human rights violations, including the ...
Media Actor

Those who create disinformation usually know in advance which segment of society they are targeting.

The subject of the course was disinformation and its various manifestations in the mass media. The main speaker of the topic was Simon Sargsyan, international journalist, https://mitk.am/, the founder and ...
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The next course of the media actor training program, video

The subject of the course is disinformation and its various manifestations in the mass media. WHAT IS DISINFORMATION? "Disinformation is the intentional dissemination of false or distorted information with the ...
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Training of media actors

The first block meeting of the group was held within the framework of the "Training of Media Actors" program in one of the rest areas of Aghveran. The topics of ...
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This is how harshly Putin punishes Russian teenagers

They are courageous: young people who protest in Russia against the war in Ukraine face severe penalties. They serve as a deterrent for imitators. ‘Do you need a president like ...
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Letters from a Russian prison from gymnasium student Yegor Balazeikin

At the end of February 2023, 16-year-old gymnasium student Yegor Balazeikin smashed a Molotov cocktail against the wall of a military recruitment office in the Leningrad region. This is how ...
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Sergei Mikhailov, founder of the Altai newspaper Listok, was given eight years for “fakes” about the army

Sergei Mikhailov was arrested in the spring of 2022, and is now sentenced to 8 years in a penal colony. The prosecution demanded that the founder of the newspaper be ...
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Why there was a riot in a Russian colony

Correctional Colony No. 19 in Volgograd Oblast, where four colony employees and four convicts were killed in a hostage situation on August 23, had the whole set of problems of ...
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Archipelago Belarus – post-Stalinist terror, what’s behind the new figures?

Exactly four years after the uprising of the Belarusian democracy movement in the summer of 2020, the best-known exile organisation ‘Viasna’ presents its infographic ‘4 Years of Mass Repression’. Excerpts ...