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
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.
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...
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.
The elderly activist from Kaliningrad region, who is taking care of his paralysed mother, was jailed for posts about conscripts in the war and the men killed on the Moskva battleship.
Sixteen months ago, the Kremlin launched an all-out war against Ukraine. At the same time, a new round of repression against people inside Russia began. OVD-Info continues to collect and analyse data on political and anti-war repression in Russia. You can support the project by following Restriction of the right...
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