Жириновский ударил митингующего в Москве на митинге (Moscow) – Police arbitrarily detained hundreds of peaceful protesters, including older peopl...
Russia: Police Crush Peaceful Protests
Governments Pressure Russia to Act on Chechnya Abuses
Fifteen governments in Europe and North America have taken a rare but important step to press Russia to end serious human rights violations and ab...
Russia: Chechen Leader Threatens Human Rights Defenders
(Moscow) – Russian President Vladimir Putin should condemn recent statements by Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s leader, threatening human rights defend...
Online Jokes Are No Laughing Matter in Russia
Russian authorities have registered 762 “extremist crimes” so far this year, many of them consisting of social media posts. In some cases, the authori...
Germany: Put Rights on Agenda for Putin Meeting
(Berlin) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel should raise critical human rights issues when she meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Meseb...
A torture scandal makes Russia pay attention
Last month, a gruesome torture scandal broke out in Russia — one that finally means the authorities cannot continue to ignore the gravity of the p...
Russia: Activist Attacked in Dagestan Ongoing Violent Harassment of Leading Rights Group
(Moscow) – An unidentified assailant viciously attacked a representative of Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights group, on March 28, 2018, Human Ri...