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Mar 18 2019 5:27pm
Russia: leading Chechen human rights activist sent to penal colony for four years
Head of Memorial’s Chechnya office - Oyub Titiev - subjected to ‘sham’...
Mar 4 2019 3:19pm
Urgent Action: Three Jehovah’s witnesses at risk of torture
On 15 February Russian law enforcement officials carried out raids on ...
Feb 26 2019 1:59pm
Urgent Action: Prominent defender must be released
The final hearing in the trial against Oyub Titiev, prominent human ri...
Feb 18 2019 4:13pm
Urgent Action: Danish Jehovah’s witness jailed for his faith
Danish national and Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen was found gui...
Feb 7 2019 1:48pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko, an Open Russia human rights defen...
Jan 31 2019 4:19pm
Russia: 'Heartless' charges against activist who supported detained colleague
The Russian authorities must stop their vicious campaign against oppos...
Jan 21 2019 5:36pm
Russia: first-ever 'undesirable organisation' case brought against human rights activist
Open Russia’s coordinator in Rostov-on-Don could face six years in jai...
Jan 16 2019 12:03pm
Urgent Action: Homophobic crackdown in Chechnya resumes
The Chechen authorities have unleashed a new wave of attacks on people...
Jan 14 2019 5:27pm
Chechnya: new LGBTI crackdown is 'spine-chilling'
‘We are horrified by reports that at least two people have died from t...
Nov 12 2018 4:10pm
Urgent Action Update: Two missing prisoners found; torture fears remain
After weeks of uncertainty about the fate and whereabouts of IT specia...