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Russia: human rights crisis deepens as Navalny supporters arrested en masse
Russian authorities unleashed a crackdown on peaceful protesters
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Eight inmates in Russia’s Far Eastern Sakha-Yakutia region have launched a hunger strike to protest conditions at the prison where they are being held, the head of a regional human monitoring group says.
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Russia: From prison, Navalny urges Russians to rise up and ‘stop the war’
The jailed anti-Kremlin activist branded Putin an “obviously insane czar
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Russia has created more than 20 prison or “filtration” camps in occupied Ukrainian territory, Ukraine’s representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said.
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Russia: Navalni denuncia un endurecimiento de las condiciones de detención
El opositor ruso encarcelado Alexéi Navalni denunció un endurecimiento de
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Russia has too many prisoners — more than 543,000, the largest imprisoned population per capita in Europe. Twenty-eight percent of Russian prisoners are behind bars for drug-related crimes, more than those imprisoned for either robbery or murder. Most of those individuals are drug users, not drug d…
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Rusia has ordered a prisoner to pay his own medical costs after he went on hunger strike over jail conditions, his lawyer said today, a move that could curb protests against poor treatment of convicts.
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At the end of a lengthy trial, 17 participants in a protest that took place in the Kopeysk penal colony (Ural Region) in November 2012 in response to systematic torture practices were sentenced to up to 5 years of prison by the Chelyabinsk Regional Court for “mass riots.”
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Igor Sovchuk, a prisoner at prison IK-6 in the city of Tyumen, Siberia, complained repeatedly of a headache. After being told repeatedly to shut up, the guards finally agreed to take him to the medical unit. He was given an injection and sent back to his cell.
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Selon un responsable des secours, le feu aurait démarré dans la boulangerie située au rez-de-chaussée du bâtiment.
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Russia: Tajikistan denounces ‘torture’ of Tajik suspects in Moscow attack, urges fair trial
Tajikistan’s foreign minister has described the beating
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Russia: release prominent lawyer defending Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation from arbitrary detention
Ivan Pavlov, human rights lawyer
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Russia/Ukraine: Prisoners of war must be protected from public curiosity under Geneva Convention
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Russia/Ukraine: Prisoners of war must be protected from public curiosity under Geneva Convention
Prisoners of war in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Russia: le mystère de la faible propagation du coronavirus dans les prisons
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Russia: detienen las clases de yoga en las cárceles por ‘crear’ presos homosexuales
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Russia: after deadly prison riot in Siberia, officials are tight-lipped as families seek information on survivors
MOSCOW – It wasn’t until two days
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Hostage Shaun Pinner was electrocuted, stabbed, subjected to a mock execution and forced to listen to ABBA during his time in captivity.The ex-British Army soldier had to endure Mamma Mia over and over during 24-hour music torture sessions.
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Russia: workers at prison where Navalny died reportedly tried to pass off inmate’s death from torture as suicide
Workers at the “Polar Wolf” prison
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Russia: human rights activists have spent 30 years fighting for better privacy and cleaner facilities, but ‘holes in the floor’ persist
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