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Crowds clash with riot police as activist jailed in Bashkortostan

2024-01-18T15:07:55+01:0018. January 2024|

Russian riot police fired tear gas and hit protesters with batons in Bashkortostan on Wednesday after a rights activist was sentenced to four years in a penal colony. Footage showed supporters of Fail Alsynov clashing with police - some throwing snowballs - near the court. Alsynov was jailed for inciting ethnic hatred, which he denies. One protester had a "smashed head", and dozens were detained and injured, monitoring group OVD-Info

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August – 30 November 2023)

2023-12-19T11:21:58+01:0019. December 2023|

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 August – 30 November 2023) This thirty-seventh report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the human rights situation in Ukraine covers the period from 1 August to 30 November 2023. From 1 August to 30 November, OHCHR documented 2440 civilian casualties (576 killed and 1864 injured), with the majority (86 per cent) occurring in

Dozens of Russian doctors demanded that Putin provide medical assistance to political prisoner Gorinov

2023-12-10T17:09:58+01:0011. December 2023|

Russian doctors published an open letter to Putin demanding that Gorinov be given medical assistance. Russian municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov, convicted for so-called "fakes" about the Russian army, is in a serious condition, according to his lawyer: despite an aggravation of his lung disease, prison doctors refuse to treat him. On 8 December, Gorinov's lawyer described his condition as follows: "Alexei has no strength, even to sit on a chair

IGFM: 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a warning to us

2023-12-10T14:14:22+01:0010. December 2023|

Currently the most serious state human rights violation is the invasion of Ukraine IGFM: 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a warning to us On the occasion of Human Rights Day on December 10, 2023, the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) laments the numerous human rights violations taking place around the world. ISHR chairman Edgar Lamm calls the Russian attack on Ukraine the most serious

What are the most violated rights in Moldova

2023-12-10T12:07:16+01:0010. December 2023|

Human Rights Day is celebrated every year on 10 December. The dispersal of a protest in Chisinau on Sunday, 16 October 2022 The year 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the world's most innovative and global commitments: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document enshrines the inalienable rights to which everyone is entitled - regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion,

Ukrainian human rights defender disappeared in Russian captivity

2023-11-10T10:47:15+01:0010. November 2023|

Maksym Butkevych is missing The founder of the ZMINA Human Rights Centre, Ukrainian journalist and military man of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Maksym Butkevych, has disappeared in Russian captivity. In the summer of 2022, Maksym Butkevych, who had joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was captured by Russia in eastern Ukraine. He was later found in the pre-trial detention centre in Luhansk. In March 2023, the so-called court of

PACE condemns Moldovan authorities for human rights violations

2023-10-26T17:25:36+02:0026. October 2023|

The website of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe published a declaration by PACE members condemning the regime ruling in Moldova The declaration refers to the disregard by the Moldovan authorities of the PACE resolution on the reform of justice and the development of democratic institutions, adopted in January 2023. The PACE members state that the implementation of the prevetting procedure and justice reform has failed. They cite

MEMORIAL and „Voices of War“ at the Frankfurt Book Fair

2023-10-19T15:50:00+02:0019. October 2023|

Ukraine: making the „unimaginable tangible“ through „Voices of War“ - in the spirit of IGFM The project of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group „Voices of War“ has been close to IGFM's heart from the very beginning. IGFM has always been an organisation that gives a voice to victims and witnesses of human rights violations. This has been the "spirit" of IGFM for more than half a century. That is

Nobel Peace Prize won by Narges Mohammadi for ‘fight against the oppression of women in Iran’

2023-10-06T14:26:07+02:006. October 2023|

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo on Friday. Mohammadi, 51, has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison, and has been banned from seeing her husband and children. Her name has become

Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief declared a foreign agent

2023-09-29T12:42:09+02:0029. September 2023|

Dmitry Muratov declared a foreign agent In early September 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov a foreign agent. Later, Dmitry Muratov announced that he leaves his post as editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta for the duration of the court proceedings regarding the inclusion of his name in the register of foreign agents. Muratov himself strongly disagreed with the decision of the Ministry

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