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After the illegal and unjustified liquidation of the Memorial Human Rights Center, with the consent of its Council, our team continues the work of the Memorial Human Rights Center Support Program for Political Prisoners as an independent human rights project
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26 Aug, 2026
Saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, transferred to a unit with even harsher conditions where ‘only prisoners with disabilities are held’, continues to face discrimination after being labelled ‘obizhenny’
Political prisoner Andrei Shabanov is being transferred to another unit, 'where only prisoners with disabilities are held'. He said conditions there would be even worse than in his current unit.
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24 Aug, 2026
Russian woman who returned to Moscow from Ukraine over paperwork charged with high treason after four months of ‘carousel’ arrests
Moscow investigators have opened a criminal case on charges of high treason against Svetlana Golovatenko, who lived in Ukraine for many years but returned to Russia to renew her expired internal passport and re-register a flat she still owned in Donetsk.
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26 Aug, 2026
Saxophonist Andrei Shabanov, transferred to a unit with even harsher conditions where ‘only prisoners with disabilities are held’, continues to face discrimination after being labelled ‘obizhenny’
Political prisoner Andrei Shabanov is being transferred to another unit, 'where only prisoners with disabilities are held'. He said conditions there would be even worse than in his current unit.
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19 Aug, 2026
Two residents of occupied territories sentenced to more than 10 years each for alleged cooperation with Ukrainian intelligence
In occupied Donetsk, 19-year-old Yuliia Buievets was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony, in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Serhii Pustovyi, born in 1969, was sentenced to 11 years.
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24 Aug, 2026
Russian woman who returned to Moscow from Ukraine over paperwork charged with high treason after four months of ‘carousel’ arrests
Moscow investigators have opened a criminal case on charges of high treason against Svetlana Golovatenko, who lived in Ukraine for many years but returned to Russia to renew her expired internal passport and re-register a flat she still owned in Donetsk.
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SOTAvision 22 Jul, 2026
Kherson resident’s six-year sentence upheld over comments about Vladlen Tatarsky and calls on Russian soldiers to surrender
The Appellate Military Court in Vlasikha, outside Moscow, has upheld a six-year sentence in a general-regime penal colony for Kherson resident Nataliia Pushkash
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Mediazona 21 Apr, 2026
The 225 donor cases. Russian authorities continue to prosecute donors to Navalny’s Anti‑Corruption Foundation across the country
At least 225 criminal cases had been opened across Russia over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) made after it was banned as “extremist” in August 2021
