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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 4
Restriction on protests and opposition’s activities during the 2024 elections in Russia
Input to the report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on “Super election” year and its global impact on the protection of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and for ensuring effective and inclusive public participation, provided by OVD-Info.31 January 2025Introduction...
Persecution of political prisoners: submission to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Rule 9.2 submission on the implementation of general measures in the group of cases Navalnyy and Ofitserov v. Russia submitted by the NGOs Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre, Independent Human Rights Project “Political Prisoners Support. Memorial” and OVD-Info30 January 2025IntroductionThis submission is prepared by the NGOs Memorial Human Rights Defence...
“The government’s way or the highway”: how Russian authorities persecute teachers with an anti-war stance
The original report was published on 2 September 2024.Executive SummarySince the beginning of 2022, the Russian education sector has been undergoing significant changes. The authorities intensified their focus on patriotic education and started requiring teachers to actively support the war. Some education workers have quit or left the country due...
Schoolchildren behind the bars, many deaths, and plenty of lengthy sentences. Preliminary Results of 2024 in “Prisoners of the Wartime” report
The «Prisoners of the Wartime» report is dedicated to covering criminal cases connected to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We monitor prosecution of people charged with arson, sabotage, military assistance to Ukraine, refusal to fight and other actions. It is not always clear whether the defendants had actually committed what...
Repression in Russia in 2024: OVD-Info Overview
For Russian civil society, the year 2024, like the previous two years, was marked by the unrelenting war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Domestically, political persecutions continued throughout the year. The patterns from previous years remained unchanged: direct targeting of individuals, persecution of vulnerable groups and the adoption...
Information on Human Rights Defenders Working in Remote and Rural Areas of the Russian Federation
Information on Human Rights Defenders Working in Remote and Rural Areas of the Russian Federation for the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders provided by OVD-Info31 October 2024IntroductionThis input is prepared by the independent human rights group OVD-Info for the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders.OVD-Info is...
Law enforcement versus human rights defenders: how the Russian state persecutes human rights defenders
IntroductionIn Russia, you always keep waiting. You are always on alert with your devices; at home, there is a rule not to open the door to anyone, especially the police. You are constantly waiting. I even noticed that I learned to hear the building’s front door open. When I hear...