Other: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news - 7 | OVD-Info

11.06.2025

A criminal case has been initiated against an activist in Omsk, a major city in Siberia, for participation in an extremist organisation.

11.06.2025

Journalists Aleksandr Plyushchev, Galina Timchenko, and Sergey Kovalchenko have been declared wanted by the authorities.

11.06.2025

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has declared the group of Mongolian activists #NOWAR an “undesirable organisation”

10.06.2025

Yaroslavl Oblast

“Postnews”: An LGBTQ activist from Yaroslavl, a city north-east of Moscow, faces charges of participating in an extremist organisation

09.06.2025

Prosecutors have requested an 18-year prison sentence in absentia for Leonid Volkov in a case involving 45 episodes.

09.06.2025

Republic of Karelia

A criminal case has been opened against a Mediazona journalist under the “foreign agent” law.

08.06.2025

Arkhangelsk Oblast

A woman from the closed city of Mirny has been convicted in absentia over anti-war social media posts.

06.06.2025

Former Dom-2 contestant, politician and human rights defenders: Ministry of Justice updates the list of “foreign agents”

06.06.2025

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

A resident of Nizhny Novgorod, who was convicted after making anti-war statements, has been released from a penal colony and has left the country.

05.06.2025

The owner of the online radio station Echo and an American scientific society have been declared “undesirable” in Russia.

04.06.2025

A case has been opened against the co-founder of the Free Yakutia Foundation under a “terrorism”-related article.

02.06.2025

The Ministry of Justice has added a German foundation and an American university to the register of “undesirable organisations.”

02.06.2025

An American woman has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) on charges of “spreading fake news” and mercenarism.

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