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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 4
“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...
Persecution for expression of opinion in Russia: submission to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Rule 9.2 submission on the implementation of general measures in the cases of Bryan and others v. Russia, Chirikov and Nekrasov v. Russia, and Verzilov and others v. Russia prepared by the NGOs Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre and OVD-Info21 October 2024IntroductionThis submission is prepared in accordance with Rule 9.2...
Persecution of the anti-war movement report. May-September 2024
Thirty-one months ago, Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine. Immediately following the anti-war protests in the initial days of the invasion, an unprecedented wave of repression unfolded in Russia.OVD-Info continues to gather and analyse data on the persecution of anti-war expression in Russia and the annexed Republic of Crimea.Previously,...