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Russian activist and journalist Maria Ponomarenko at court

18th April 2024

Urgent Action: Russia – Free Maria Ponomarenko

4th April 2024

Urgent Action: Russia – Release convicted anti-war politician Aleksei Gorinov

Alexei Gorinov, an opposition politician from Moscow, Russia, sentenced to 7 years for distributing false information about the Russian army in Ukraine.

4th March 2024

Russia’s war censorship laws must go

The Russian authorities have begun a widespread campaign of persecution against those paying respects to Aleksei Navalny.

21st February 2024

Russia: Authorities brutally suppress mourners of Aleksei Navalny

16th February 2024

Russia: Prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny, Kremlin’s most vocal opponent, dies in custody

An anti-war activist in Russia

21st July 2023

Russia: 20,000 activists subject to heavy reprisals as Russia continues to crack down on anti-war movement at home

Activist in Russia

14th July 2023

Russia: Adoption of transphobic legislation a horrendous blow to human rights

Vladimir Kara-Murza

17th April 2023

Russia: Anti-war political activist and prisoner of conscience Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in jail

President Putin of Russia

20th March 2023

Russia: ICC’s arrest warrant against Putin a step towards justice for victims of war crimes in Ukraine

Maria Ponomarenko

16th February 2023

Russia: Journalist Maria Ponomarenko sentenced to six years in penal colony over Ukraine bombing post

Aleksei Navalny

23rd January 2023

Russia: Two years after Aleksei Navalny’s arrest, Russian opposition figures suppressed, jailed or exiled

Ilya Yashin

12th December 2022

Russia: Opposition politician Ilya Yashin sentenced to eight and half years in jail for denouncing Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

Authorities in Russia clamp down on a protest.

24th November 2022

Russia: Journalists and independent monitors being silenced to stifle reporting of protests – new report

22nd November 2022

Russia: Court upholds acquittal of feminist artist on trial for ‘pornography’

Aleksandra Skochilenko

28th October 2022

Write For Rights 2022: Aleksandra Skochilenko – Russia: Jailed for opposing Russian aggression

Houses in one of the residential areas of Lviv, Ukraine, have been completely cut off from electricity due to Russian missile attacks.

20th October 2022

Ukraine: Russian attacks on critical energy infrastructure amount to war crimes

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