Those who tried to visit or write to the journalist, who is serving a 25-year sentence, were unsuccessful The prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason, has disappeared from the Siberian prison where he was behind bars, according to his supporters. Kara-Murza, 42, was being held in a prison in the Omsk region, but a letter sent to him by the activist and
Artist Sasha Skochilenko sentenced to 7 years in prison for anti-war stickers On November 16, 2023, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Sasha Skochilenko, accused of spreading false information about the Russian army, to 7 years in prison. After the verdict was announced, many people who had come to the court to support Sasha began chanting "Shame!" loudly, and Sasha herself was escorted out of the courtroom to
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
The team of jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny has announced a worldwide action in support of him. Navalny's supporters have proposed holding it on the politician's birthday on 4 June. "On June 4 at 2pm, come out to the main squares of your cities, wherever you are, whatever country you are in, come out to support Navalny," Navalny's supporters said in a statement. The whole world is behind Navalny.
Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been sentenced to 25 years in jail in Russia for charges linked to his criticism of the war in Ukraine. Mikhail Tereshchenko/TASS Vladimir Kara-Murza is the first person to be accused of treason for publicly listing publicly available facts He was found guilty of treason, spreading "false" information about the Russian army and being affiliated with an "undesirable organisation". The Russian-British former
Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza receives the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize On October, 10, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe awarded Russian opposition activist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. The Parliamentary Assembly noted: Congratulations to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has just been awarded the 2022 Václav Havel Human Rights Prize! The 60,000-euro prize honours outstanding civil society action in
В этом году лауреатами Нобелевской премии мира 2022 стали правозащитники: украинский Центр гражданских свобод, беларусский правозащитник и основатель правозащитной организации "Весна", признанный в Беларуси экстремистской организацией, а также российский правозащитный центр "Мемориал", ликвидированный в России. Украинский Центр гражданских свобод был основан в 2007 году. Основные цели Центра - защита прав человека и утверждение демократии в Украине. Центр гражданских свобод играет важную роль в развитии и укреплении гражданского общества в Украине,
Sign the petition "Stop the War on Ukraine!" Well-known Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev launched a petition "Stop the War on Ukraine!" on the change.org platform. We quote part of the text of the petition: "We, supporters of peace, acting in the name of saving the lives of citizens of Russia and Ukraine, in order to stop the war that has begun and prevent it from escalating into a
Wechange aims to bring together people from Germany and Russia, with and without experience in international project work, with the exchange "Digital Natives" The programme combines three goals: firstly, raising awareness of discrimination against minorities, secondly, strengthening the use of digital media and resources, and thirdly, building a network between German and Russian people. In two workshops on 29/30 October and 5/6 November and in a closing event in Yerevan
Since 5 August 2022, officers and special forces of the FSIN have brutally tortured and humiliated convicts, subjecting them to suffering as revenge. For crimes committed by two convicts, the FSIN generals imposed collective responsibility. From a message received by gulagu.net: "At the moment there is torture in penal colony No. 2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Kalmykia. On the night of 5-6 August all the officers were drunk,
