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Russia: Kremlin must explain use of nerve agent to poison Aleksei NavalnyPress release 03 Sep 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Conviction of prisoners of conscience upheld
The Russian Military Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of Crimean Tatar human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Jul 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Journalist convicted but given lenient sentenceRussian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva was found guilty of “justification of terrorism” and fined on 6 July
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jul 2020 -
Russia: anti-Putin shaman confined to psychiatric hospitalRespondse to a Russian court’s decision earlier today to confirm the confinement of Aleksandr Gabyshev - a Siberian shaman who vowed last year to “to purge” Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin - to a psychiatric hospital.
Press release 02 Jun 2020 -
Syria: UN must not cut vital aid lifeline to Idlib amid Russian and Syrian war crimes - new reportA new Amnesty report details 18 cases - the majority of which occurred in January and February this year - where Syrian government and/or Russian forces targeted medical facilities and schools in Idlib, western Aleppo and north-western Hama governorates.
Press release 09 May 2020 -
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Governments must stop abusing emergency powers during COVID-19 pandemicAuthorities in Kazakhstan have welded apartment doors shut to trap residents inside, while Chechen police have assaulted people for not wearing facemasks
Press release 29 Apr 2020 -
Crimea: Jehovah's Witness sentenced to six years in penal colonySergei Filatov is ‘prisoner of conscience’, says Amnesty
Press release 05 Mar 2020 -
Syria: Moscow summit must prioritise civilian safety in Idlib‘All parties to the conflict must allow civilians wishing to flee the fighting to do so’
Press release 04 Mar 2020 -
Russia: 'gay purge' journalist attacked by mob in Chechnya‘This is the latest in a string of vicious attacks on vocal critics in Chechnya’
Press release 07 Feb 2020 -
Russia: legal challenge to 'intrusive' facial recognition technology‘It is a tool which is likely to take reprisals against peaceful protest to an entirely new level’
Press release 31 Jan 2020 -
First update: Lengthy jail terms for prisoners of conscience11 February marks the fourth anniversary of the arrest of human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jan 2020 -
Outcome: Sentencing of two young men upheldA Russian court confirmed the six-year-long sentences for prisoners of conscience, Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jan 2020 -
Urgent Action: Stop the prosecution of peaceful protesters
Russian authorities brought unfounded charges against more than a dozen individuals that carry lengthy prison sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Release youth prisoners of conscience
The youth prisoners of conscience are being prosecuted for trying to organise a peaceful protest in November 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Aug 2019 -
Russia: latest mass protest arrests condemned‘The Russian authorities have shown nothing but disdain for human rights and the notion of peaceful protest’
Press release 03 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed Crimean Tatar’s health still at risk
On 3 July a court in Russian - occupied Crimea rejected Edem Bekirov’s appeal to review his pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Jul 2019 -
Russia: release on parole for jailed human rights head in Chechnya welcomed‘The real agenda ... was to stop a human rights defender from doing his lawful human rights work’
Press release 10 Jun 2019 -
Russia: 'homophobic' censoring of Elton John Rocketman film condemned‘This mutilated version of the film insults and dehumanises same-sex relationships’
Press release 31 May 2019 -
Russia: Jehovah's Witness' appeal against six-year jail sentence rejectedA sweeping crackdown against Russia’s Jehovah’s Witnesses is underway
Press release 23 May 2019 -
Syria: at least 15 hospitals targeted in Idlib and Hama since beginning of May‘This is part of a well-established pattern targeting medical facilities’
Press release 17 May 2019
