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The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of a German citizen in Belarus

2024-07-21T08:24:29+02:00

The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of German citizen Rico Krieger in Belarus According to the German Foreign Ministry in response to DW request, the department and the German Embassy in Minsk provide consular assistance to this person and work intensively with the Belarusian authorities in his interests. ‘The death penalty is a cruel and inhuman form of punishment, which Germany rejects under any circumstances,’

The German Foreign Ministry confirmed the information about the death sentence of a German citizen in Belarus2024-07-21T08:24:29+02:00

Ukrainian authorities managed to bring home 12 more children and their families from the occupied territories

2024-07-19T16:17:43+02:00

12 more children returned to Ukraine from occupied territories   This was announced by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for human rights Dmytro Lubinets. "It was possible to return 12 Ukrainian children to their homeland! Children together with their relatives lived - in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions. Fortunately, now they are already in Ukrainian-controlled territory. Each family experienced in its own way the mess created by the occupation 'authorities'," Lubinets

Ukrainian authorities managed to bring home 12 more children and their families from the occupied territories2024-07-19T16:17:43+02:00

Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Hershkovich faces 18 years in a high-security penal colony in espionage case

2024-07-19T14:25:40+02:00

Evan Gershkovich was detained in the spring of 2023 in Ekaterinburg. Russian authorities accused him of espionage. According to the investigators, the journalist was commissioned by the CIA to collect information about Uralvagonzavod, which manufactures and repairs military equipment. The investigation claims that this information constitutes a state secret. Courts regularly extend the journalist's stay in pre-trial detention. Gershkovich does not admit guilt, insisting that he was engaged in Russia

Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Hershkovich faces 18 years in a high-security penal colony in espionage case2024-07-19T14:25:40+02:00

In St. Petersburg, an artist and his wife were given 3 and 3.5 years in prison for posting postcards in the Ukrainian language

2024-07-19T13:43:34+02:00

The 1st Western District Military Court of St Petersburg has sentenced artists Anastasia Dyudyaeva and Alexander Dotsenko in a case of "calls to terrorism" over postcards in Ukrainian posted in Lenta. The prosecution requested 4 years of imprisonment for the couple. The court sentenced Alexander to 3 years in prison and his wife Anastasia to 3.5 years. According to the investigation, Dyudyaeva made leaflets in Ukrainian, on which, among other

In St. Petersburg, an artist and his wife were given 3 and 3.5 years in prison for posting postcards in the Ukrainian language2024-07-19T13:43:34+02:00

A schoolboy who wrote an anti-Putin leaflet has become Russia’s youngest political prisoner

2024-07-10T10:03:51+02:00

Fifteen-year-old Arseny Turbin, from the town of Livny, in western Russia’s Oryol region, was sentenced to five years in prison for terrorism on 21 June. Though he excelled at maths and was fascinated by physics and tech, he had planned to study political science, in an attempt to better understand what was happening in Russia and with the hope that it would teach him how to improve the situation further

A schoolboy who wrote an anti-Putin leaflet has become Russia’s youngest political prisoner2024-07-10T10:03:51+02:00

Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 170,000 euros

2024-07-09T19:55:30+02:00

On July 8, 2024 Brest Regional Court announced the verdict of human rights defender Olga Karach, head of the International Center for civil initiatives “Our House”. Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 600,000 Belarusian rubles (170,000 euros).   Together with her, Veranika Tsepkala, Yauhen Vilski, Anatoli Kotau and Vadzim Dzmitrenak received 12 years in prison each. Veranika Tsepkala also received a fine of

Olga Karach was sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined 170,000 euros2024-07-09T19:55:30+02:00

Help for children’s hospital in Odessa

2024-07-05T16:58:02+02:00

A contribution to the special campaign at the Children's Hospital in Odessa, June 3, 2024 Since an IGFM Christmas campaign in 2022 for sick and war-disabled children, the IGFM has repeatedly received calls for help from the central children's hospital in Odessa/Ukraine. In April 2024, an IGFM member, at high personal risk, delivered 10,000 venous catheters financed by donations to the hospital in a small truck and in May the

Help for children’s hospital in Odessa2024-07-05T16:58:02+02:00

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 March – 31 May 2024)

2024-07-05T10:39:46+02:00

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 March – 31 May 2024) The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation and subsequent hostilities continued to have a devastating impact on the civilian population in the period between 1 March and 31 May 2024. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) documented that the cross-border offensive by Russian armed forces in Kharkiv region alone

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 March – 31 May 2024)2024-07-05T10:39:46+02:00

A new criminal case has been opened against preacher Eduard Charov for a post on social networking sites

2024-06-29T19:36:15+02:00

The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case under the article on "discrediting" the army against Eduard Charov, a Christian preacher from the Sverdlovsk Region.   On 27 June, the notification about the initiation of the case was published by the preacher's wife Inna Charova, attention to the publication was drawn by the publication "7×7. Horizontal Russia. The reason for the case was a repost of a picture about

A new criminal case has been opened against preacher Eduard Charov for a post on social networking sites2024-06-29T19:36:15+02:00

15-year-old schoolboy sentenced to 5 years for leaflets criticising Putin

2024-06-25T09:53:28+02:00

Arseniy Turbin, a 15-year-old resident of the town of Livny, Orel region, was sent to an educational colony for five years, allegedly for his participation in the Legion "Freedom of Russia" organisation*. The schoolboy Arseniy Turbin was under house arrest from 5 September 2023 to 31 May 2024 with the right to attend the lyceum, then he was released on his own recognizance, but soon - on 20 June 2024

15-year-old schoolboy sentenced to 5 years for leaflets criticising Putin2024-06-25T09:53:28+02:00
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