By contrast, smears of government critics and “fake news” about them in state-controlled media was commonplace.

Counter-terrorism provisions were widely used to target dissent across the country and in Crimea. In June, the initial charges were replaced with more serious ones (premeditated killing by a group) which carries up to 20 years’ imprisonment.In November, a long-awaited bill on domestic violence was tabled in parliament. At least 9,000 of Russia’s 519,600-strong prison population are over 60-years-old and many more in poor health. Amnesty International says it has documented 18 attacks in northwest Syria carried out by Syrian government and Russian forces over the past year that amounted to war crimes.

Anastasia Shevchenko, in Rostov-on-Don, was arrested on 21 January and, after two days in detention, spent the entire year under house arrest pending trial.In October, a court in Krasnodar convicted human rights lawyer Mikhail Benyash of “use of violence against representatives of authorities” and fined him 60,000 roubles (US$ 969), reduced by half on account of the two months he had spent in pretrial detention. Those attempting to exercise these rights faced reprisals, ranging from harassment to police ill-treatment, arbitrary arrest, heavy fines and in some cases criminal prosecution and imprisonment.
Russia’s human rights record continued to deteriorate, with the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly consistently restricted, in law and practice. Their co-defendant Viacheslav Shashmin received three years’ probation.A series of overwhelmingly peaceful protests against a territorial settlement with neighbouring Chechnya were held in the Ingushetian capital of Magas in the North Caucasus in late 2018-early 2019. While the Russian government claims this reform will ‘protect family values’, in reality it rides roughshod over women’s rights Amnesty International – это всемирное движение более 7 миллионов человек. Refugees were forcibly returned to destinations where they were at risk of torture.Five years after its voting rights were suspended following the annexation of Crimea, Russia returned to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) after a diplomatic compromise. Although there were numerous reports of arbitrary arrest, use of excessive and indiscriminate force and ill-treatment of protesters by the officers, none were known to have been investigated.

Several Russian NGOs were heavily penalised for April, Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus, based in Krasnodar Region, was fined by a court in Maikop for sharing blogs that had been previously published on the “undesirable” Otkrytaya Rossia movement’s website. They have charged her under a draconian law which expressly contradicts Russia’s international human rights obligations and are seeking to bar her from participating in elections His asylum application was rejected by the Ministry of the Interior in October 2018 on the grounds that he already had a Russian residence permit, valid until February 2019. Sexual and Reproductive Rights By the time he stepped down in 2008, the Putin administration had established control over most of the mass media, the regional leadership, the political parties and even civil society.
This treatment of protesters, in turn, galvanised unprecedented public solidarity with them.In July and August, more than 2,600 people were arrested during protests in Moscow which remained peaceful until the police and National Guard officers forcibly intervened. However, on 27 February he was taken by unidentified law enforcement officers from his cell to an unknown location. Amnesty International Press ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseTuesday, January 04, 2011 Amnesty International Calls for the Immediate Release of Russian Activists Jailed over Freedom of Assembly Protest Contact: AIUSA media relations office, … Amnesty International was founded in London in July 1961 by English barrister Peter Benenson. Russia: Alleged poisoning of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny must be thoroughly investigated Of these, only 1.7 – 3.2% were investigated. The case against him had been fabricated after he was arrested and beaten by plainclothes police in September 2018, though his counter-allegations were consistently ignored.The Ministry of Justice instigated administrative proceedings against several organisations for allegedly violating the “foreign agents” legislation. If you are talented and passionate about human rights then Amnesty International wants to hear from you. Russia pursued further integration of occupied Crimea, and its ongoing overt and covert military presence in Georgia, Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere continued to fuel human rights violations.Due to the growing disconnect between the authorities and general public, street protest was on the rise, including over political but also increasingly over local economic, social or environmental issues, such as waste disposal, but also wider political demands. In October, the authorities registered FBK as a “foreign agent”. The Russian Federation has more territory than any other country in the world, spanning two continents and northern Eurasia. If you continue to use this site, we assume that you are okay with this. Its political structures are governed by the constitution adopted in 1993 under Boris Yeltsin. It has a population of 142 million people, 80% of whom are ethnic Russians.