Texts, Reports and Analysis - 17

Urgent Need to Reinforce the UN Treaty Bodies

to: Mr Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear High Commissioner, We are Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Canadian, Dutch, Georgian, German, Kazakhstani, Kyrgyzstani, Lithuanian, Moldovian, Norwegian, Russian, Tajikistani, Turkmenistani and international civil society organisations who are calling for systemic changes in the handling of individual communications to...

Blue dress and yellow flowers: how this young activist was made stateless by the Kremlin

The story of Arshak Makichyan, climate and anti-war activist and how he was stripped of his Russian citizenship.

Saint Javelina: How a fifth-grader and her mother were detained for a Ukrainian flag profile picture

A monologue of a Moscow resident whose ten-year-old daughter was taken to a police station because of a denunciation.

“The happiest man in prison.” The story of a Danish Jehovah’s witness imprisoned for his faith

How Dennis Christensen served prison time, becoming the first in the country to be convicted because of the recognition of Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist organization.

“No other language but the language of pain.” A monologue of a man, who was tortured because of his anarchist brother

The story of a persecution and tortures of Pyotr Ivko, brother of Ivan Ivko, conducted by the police.

Draft notices misdirected. Those detained at protests are served call-up orders to report to military draft centers, but not to the correct ones

Call-up orders as a means of protester intimidation.

Wartime repressions: Seven months of war

The Russian military aggression against Ukraine has been going on for seven months now. On September 21, president Putin announced the mobilization, on the same day thousands of people took the protest to the streets. Security forces detained 1,330 people in 42 cities. We publish a summary of all anti-war...