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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...
Persecution of the anti-war movement report. Two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. February 2024.
Twenty-four months ago — on the morning of February 24, 2022 — Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukrainian territory. Along with a new round of aggression against another state, the Russian authorities began repression within their own country. Almost 20 thousand detentions, more than 800 defendants in anti-war cases,...
“Cutting off the air supply”: how the authorities are persecuting so-called ‘foreign agents’ in the face of war—an analysis of legislation
Introduction Data as of 18.01.2024 At the end of 2021, OVD-Info the first report on legislation against so-called ‘foreign agents’. Since then, there have been many changes to the laws and in the practice of their application. Including the fact that many laws have been combined — we are now...
Information on protests in memory of Alexei Navalny 16-19th February
The submission of information on first two days (16-17 February) of protests in memory of Alexei Navalny to Special Procedures was sent on 17.02.24. The on protests that took place on 18th and 19th February was submitted on 20.02.24. OVD-Info is an independent human rights project aimed at monitoring cases...