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We believe the two bloggers are being prosecuted because of their anti-corruption investigations 

We believe he is being prosecuted on account of his civic and human rights activities

He has been sentenced to four years in prison for striking the helmet of a riot police officer

He was found guilty of fraud and other crimes for attempting to collect payment for the use of his power generators during the energy blockade of Crimea

Friday, February 25, 2022 11:00 AM (MSK)
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Vadim Duboisky has already been held for 10 months in a Russian detention centre at the request of Belarusian law enforcement authorities

Konstantin Lakeev, 18, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison for kicking an FSB car three times at a rally in support of Navalny in Moscow

Yana Pinchuk is accused in Belarus of inciting hatred against police officers and extremism for running an opposition Telegram channel

Their prosecution may have been part of a government propaganda campaign against ‘Islamic extremism’

Eldar Garipov allegedly scratched the leg of a riot policeman, at the same time smashing his own head against a rubber baton

Along with Navalny and his associates, Chanysheva is charged with creating an ‘extremist group.’ We believe their prosecution is intended to completely destroy the extra-parliamentary opposition in Russia 

The activists are being prosecuted for violating ‘sanitation’ rules in their local area after they called for people to join a demonstration in support of Aleksei Navalny on 23 January

We demand that the nine individuals be immediately release, all charges against them dropped and their right to rehabilitation be recognized

The activists were initially sentenced to terms of imprisonment in the case of a banner with the words ‘The FSB is the main terrorist.’ The conviction was quashed on appeal but the charges have still not been dropped

Sergei Komandirov has been charged with justification of terrorism for reposting a video on VK of a dramatization of a trial of Putin and his associates

We believe the activists are being prosecuted for their strong criticism of the authorities

We believe the designation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation and other structures run by Navalny as extremist to be unlawful. The organizations did not violate Russian law

The plaintiff will submit missing documents and the defendants will submit their position in writing

We, the undersigned 50 organizations of the International Federation for Human Rights, condemn in the harshest terms the ongoing attempts by the Russian authorities to liquidate two of Russia’s foremost human rights NGOs

On November 18, 2021 a press conference "Lawsuits to liquidate Memorials: absurd, illegal, and dangerous for civil society" was held in Moscow