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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 6
Information on human rights violations regarding failure to provide medical care and ill-treatment
Information on human rights violations regarding failure to provide medical care and ill-treatment in the cases of Igor Baryshnikov, Evgeny Bestuzhev, Alexey Moskalev, Maria Ponomarenko and Lyudmila Razumova for the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation provided by OVD-Info. Introduction OVD-Info is an independent...
Persecution of the anti-war movement report. May 2024
Twenty-seven 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...
Repressions Report. March 2024
Political pressure related to the presidential election, mass searches in artists’ homes, and the first reported criminal case of the 'extremist movement LGBT'. OVD-Info tells about these and some other key events of political repression in the March’s chronicle. The topic of the month: Persecutions related to the presidential election...
Repressions Report. February 2024
On 16 February, Alexei Navalny was killed in the colony in the village of Kharp (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region). After this, the politician’s family could not receive the body for a long time, and people all over Russia were detained while laying flowers in his memory. The funeral service and the...
Repressions Report. January 2024
Protests in Baymak (Bashkortostan), initiatives of MP Andrei Lugovoi and persecution for violation of public morality — OVD-Info recalls the main events of January 2024. Protests in support of Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov In mid-January, a judge of Baymak District Court in Bashkortostan local activist Fail Alsynov to four years...
Report on the participation of civil society organisations pursuing expressions of international solidarity
Report on the participation of civil society organisations pursuing expressions of international solidarity through transnational, international, and regional networks to the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity. Introduction OVD-Info is an independent human rights project aimed at monitoring cases of political persecution in Russia and providing...
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinion Concerning Alexey Moskalev
Opinion No. 76/2023 concerning Alexey Moskalev (Russian Federation and Belarus) The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was established in resolution 1991/42 of the Commission on Human Rights. In its resolution 1997/50, the Commission extended and clarified the mandate of the Working Group. Pursuant to General Assembly resolution 60/251 and Human...