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Independent Russian Human Rights Reports and Analysis - page 9
Database of detentions at public protests 2011-2021
About us The OVD-Info project began collecting data on detentions in its very first year of operation. We believe that the data we have collected will help understand the structure of civil rights violations within the system. This, in turn, will empower numerous experts, researchers, graduate students, and students to...
A Year of Mobilisation. Persecution due to protest against the war and mass conscription into the army
The mobilisation in 2022, which Russian authorities called ‘partial, ’ will be remembered by Russian residents for a long time. The head of the Ministry of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, ordered the conscription of 300,000 individuals into the military. This was immediately followed by raids and extensive roundups of people: men...
Repressions Report. July 2023
OVD-Info covers the main news for July in our chronicle of political repressions — exerting pressure on academics and teachers, freezing anti-war activists’ bank accounts, and opening new cases under the articles on calls for extremist and terrorist activities.
Wartime Repressions Report. August 2023
Eighteen months ago, Russia initiated a full-scale war against Ukraine. Immediately after the breakout of anti-war protests in the first days of the invasion, an unprecedented wave of repression began within Russia. OVD-Info continues to gather and analyze data about persecutions due to anti-war stances in Russia and in the...
Submission to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
A. Introduction These submissions are made to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter, «the Committee») by Net Freedoms Project and OVD-Info. The submissions intend to raise the issues under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter, «the Covenant») that follow from the 7th Periodic...
“The terror effect”: an analysis of sentences for “antiwar” cases
Publication date: 04.08.2023 Activists started to be sentenced in the second month of the full-scale invasion, mainly participants of mass anti-war protests in the first days of the full-scale invasion. As of 12 July, we know of 215 sentences, 82 of which carry real prison terms. 3 cases were dismissed....
Wartime Repressions Report. July 2023
Russia’s full scale war against Ukraine has been continuing for more than 500 days. Seventeen months ago, just after the anti-war protests having taken place in the first days of the invasion, an unprecedented wave of repression began inside Russia. OVD-Info continues collecting and analyzing data on prosecutions for anti-war...