All posts tagged human rights defenders

Russia: Reverse Judgment Against Human Rights Defender

(Moscow) – The Russian courts should quash a finding of guilt against a prominent human rights defender, Yuri Samodurov, former head of the Andrei Sakharov Museum, and a colleague, Andrei Erofeev, for inciting religious hatred in a 2007 art exhibit, Human Rights Watch said today.

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US supporting – not exporting – democracy in Russia, says Obama

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Democracy remains on the US-Russian agenda, President Barack Obama said today. But it is best advanced through the

Memorial, International Human Rights Groups Return to Chechnya

Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Five months ago the human rights community in Russia and beyond lost a friend and colleague, Natalya Estemirova, Memorial's lead researcher

Russia: Memorial Awarded Sakharov Prize

(Moscow) - The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Memorial, a leading Russian human rights organization and to the prominent human

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