Persecution of activists

June 07, 2025 16:53

• Russian MoJ declares Ruslan Kutaev* a foreign agent

  The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included Chechen human rights defender Ruslan Kutaev*, who lives abroad, in the register of foreign agents.

June 06, 2025 15:13

• Sochi residents ask court not to arrest Tatiana Polivanova

  About a dozen people whom Tatiana Polivanova helped defend their rights to land plots in litigation with officials came to support her at a court hearing on the issue of a pre-trial restriction measure, but the activist was not brought to the Sochi court. Those gathered signed an appeal in defence of Tatiana Polivanova.

June 05, 2025 15:47

• Activist Tatiana Polivanova detained in Sochi in criminal case

  The police conducted a search at the home of activist Tatiana Polivanova in Sochi and took her to an IVS (temporary detention facility). The court is preparing to pronounce a pre-trial restriction measure with regard to the activist, accused of acting as an intermediary in the transfer of a bribe. The relatives of the activist associate the prosecution with the Tatiana Polivanova’s public activities.

June 04, 2025 00:00

• Baku activists accuse law enforcers of cruel treatment

  Several dozen people were detained in Baku at the action with a demand an investigation into the death of a 17-year-old resident of Ganja. After the detention, they reported law enforcers’ pressure, accusing them of cruel treatment and sexual harassment.

June 03, 2025 14:39

• Georgian Tax Service employee dismissed from office after participating in protests

  Nato Bolkvadze, a Tax Service Department analyst, was dismissed from her job after participating in protests against the suspension of the Georgia’s European integration. Nato Bolkvadze treats her dismissal as violation of her rights and intends to appeal against it.

June 02, 2025 14:00

• Participant of march in Nalchik sees no sense in filing appeal against his arrest

  Kazbek Mamikov, a participant in the march in Nalchik held to mark the end of the Caucasian War, who served his administrative arrest, has decided not to appeal against the court’s decision, while two other participants in the march have succeeded in their appeals to reduce their arrest terms. There were no arrests in Maikop, but two activists had to write explanatory notes.

June 01, 2025 17:28

• Baku court extends arrest of human rights defender Safarov

  The arrest of Rufat Safarov, an Azeri human rights defender, accused of fraud, has been extended for other 20 days.

May 31, 2025 18:17

• Nagavkin accuses penal colony’s deputy head of insulting him

  Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin has filed an appeal to the supervisory authorities with a request to assess the insults he was subjected to by the deputy head of the penal colony-settlement.

May 30, 2025 18:05

• Defence points out signs of falsification in Mziya Amaglobeli’s case

  An advocate of journalist Mziya Amaglobeli has filed an appeal against her administrative arrest in the case on insulting a police officer. The defence has submitted to the court an expert analysis of the video recording, indicating signs of falsification of evidence by the police.

May 30, 2025 14:09

• Advocate and Georgian MIA argue about circumstances of Nika Meliya’s detention

  Nika Meliya, the leader of the oppositional “Coalition for Change”, was detained administratively for insulting a policeman, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. In his turn, Mr Meliya’s advocate asserts that his client’s detention has to do with the intention to ensure his presence at the trial on failure to comply with the demands of the parliamentary temporary investigating commission.

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