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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 10
The stalker state: how authorities use facial recognition system against dissenters and what is the opinion of European Court of Human Rights
Publication date: 02.08.2023 On 4 July 2023, the European Court of Human Rights issued an order directly condemning Russia’s police use of a facial recognition system against dissidents. At the same time, the authorities are increasing the use of technology for repressive purposes. Today we talk about the excuses given...
Repressions Report. June 2023
Pressure on activists’ family members, torture in a detention center, and #FreeNavalny June 4th protests - OVD-Info covers the main news for the month of June in our report on political repressions
Searching for “Ukrainian traces”: an artist’s mother intimidated by cops
Here is artist Andrey Semkin’s story about the undue police pressure on his mother. He left the country not long before the opening of his anti-war exhibition.
“You can kill us, you can run us over.” One village with protest history against corruption and pollution
How a Kuban village fights against a landfill surrounded by rice fields
“They hit me on the head and dragged me into the car”: elderly man detained for anti-war posts
The monologue of an elderly man from the Kemerovo region about his third fine for anti-Kremlin social media posts
Apology Videos and More: Post-Full-Scale Invasion Analysis of Extrajudicial Pressure Tactics
Publication date: 04.07.2023 In Russia, pressure outside the legal framework is the key tool of wartime repression. A public apology recorded on camera is one of the most frequently used practises of such pressure; it originated in Chechnya several years ago and has been gradually propagating across the country. In...
Baryshnikov’s Last Court Address
Final court speech of Igor Baryshnikov, a 64-year-old activist from Sovetsk, sentenced to seven and a half years in prison because of his anti-war Facebook posts.