FSB officers in annexed Crimea held six Crimean Tatars for about five hours in a half-bent position, with their heads pressed to their knees, their hands cuffed behind their backs and their eyes closed. Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev reported this to Crimean Solidarity on September 13. He witnessed the torture of his clients when he came to the FSB building, where investigative actions were to take place.

A criminal case was opened against Moscow activist and Nemtsov-Most volunteer Evgeniy Mishchenko under the article “on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization.” He stated that during his arrest he was beaten, breaking three ribs. The beating was recorded at the emergency room. Mishchenko was detained on September 11. According to Mishchenko’s lawyer Nikolai Fomin, the charge is about the Freedom of Russia Legion; the specific reason for initiating the case is unknown.

The European Court of Human Rights has decided to recover compensation from Russia for violating the rights of 11 LGBTQ+ Russians. The ECHR combined their applications into one proceeding. The amount of compensation amounted to 165 thousand euros, the LGBTQ+ group Coming Out reported. The victims accused Russia of unfairly investigating homophobic attacks, calling for violence against LGBTQ+ people and insulting them.

The person involved in the “Tyumen case” received medical assistance after two months of systematic refusals. This was achieved only after lawyer Fyodor Akchermyshev submitted an application to the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Tyumen Region, and a prisoner support group began a campaign to file complaints with the Federal Penitentiary Service.

At least three people have died due to Russian shelling of Ukraine over the past 24 hours, and another 15 civilians have been wounded. Russia shelled the Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy and Odessa regions of Ukraine, the administrations of these regions reported today. Occupied Sevastopol was also shelled. due to Russian shelling have died In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours , three civilians . Three more were injured.

At least 177 environmental activists have been killed in 2022, the human rights organization Global Witness has calculated. 36% of killed activists were representatives of indigenous peoples. Other methods of pressure were also used against activists, such as threats, online attacks, criminalization of their activities, and even imprisonment. In most cases, it is impossible to identify those responsible, but a number of killings have been linked to large mining companies and agribusinesses.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced an unnamed man to seven years in a special regime colony for a post on Odnoklassniki about the bombing of the Crimean Bridge. Crimean Bridge. He was found guilty under articles about “public calls for terrorism” and “extremism” on the Internet.

On January 25, 2024, Doxa was recognized as an “unwanted organization”. If you are in Russia or plan to return to it, you can not replace our materials on social networks, refer to them and publish quotes. Read more about what is possible and impossible, read in the cards .

The European Council decided to extend personal sanctions against Russians who are “responsible for violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.” However, the statement notes that after a review of the sanctions, they were lifted from four unnamed people. According to Reuters sources, sanctions were lifted from the owner of the RBC media holding Grigory Berezkin, billionaire Fariz Akhmedov and Ozon CEO Alexander Shulgin.

More than 200 human rights organizations have protested in connection with the UN conference to change the climate in the United Arab Emirates. In a joint open letter, the organization was called by the countries participating in the conference to use this event to highlight human rights violations in the UAE, as well as the role of the country in the climatic crisis.

An unnamed 16-year-old teenager is accused of "Diversion" Due to the arson of the relay cabinet on the railway. He appeared in court, reported to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to investigators, they contacted a teenager in the messenger and offered 5,000 rubles for arson of the railway cabinet. He faces up to 10 years in prison. A criminal case is considered in the Kemerovo Regional Court. On March 28, the teenager set up a relay cabinet on the railway.

The court in Moscow postponed the hearing in the administrative case about "LGBT propaganda" against tiktoker Vlad Durak. The court referred to the fact that the evidence presented by the prosecutor's office was “insufficient” and requested new ones. DELO LGBT+ lawyers, who represent the TikToker’s interests, consider this decision to be unlawful. They insist that the violations in the case are so egregious that it is impossible to correct them during the trial.

A five-month-old boy drowned after a boat carrying migrants crashed off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Since 1998, the port of Lampedusa has received most of the migrants traveling from North African countries to Europe. According to preliminary data, the boat on which the child was sailing capsized shortly before it was intercepted by the Italian coast guard. The remaining 46 passengers who fell in the world, including the child’s mother, were rescued.

The phone of the CEO of Meduza was infected with spyware around February 10, 2023, during Timchenko’s trip to Berlin, according to an investigation by Access Now and Citizen Lab. The attack occurred two weeks after Meduza was declared an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation. So far, the authors of the investigation cannot say who is behind the attack.

Memorial recognized anti-war arsonist Igor Paskar, sentenced to eight and a half years in prison, as a political prisoner. In July, Memorial assigned this status to Alexey Nuriev and Roman Nasryev, which became the first time since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine that those convicted of a radical form of protest were recognized as political prisoners. In September, Memorial recognized another anti-war arsonist, Vladimir Zolotarev, as a political prisoner.