human rights
Oct. 26 2021, 8:13 pm
Human rights activists report numerous detentions in Belarus’ Gomel
MINSK – About 30 people have been detained in Gomel for subscribing to Telegram channels designated as extremist in Belarus, human rights activists …
Interfax-Ukraine
Oct. 26 2021, 3:11 pm
Ukraine to implement international classifier that expands opportunities for people with disabilities
Ukraine will introduce the International Classification of Functioning, Disabilities and Health, which will expand the employment opportunities for …
Interfax-Ukraine
Oct. 26 2021, 1:39 pm
RFE/RL: More Jehovah’s Witnesses handed lengthy prison terms in Russia
A court in Russia’s southwestern city of Astrakhan has sentenced four Jehovah’s Witnesses to lengthy prison terms amid an ongoing crackdown of the …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 25 2021, 1:49 pm
RFE/RL: Noted Russian investigative journalist added to ‘wanted list’
MOSCOW — Noted Russian journalist Sergei Reznik, who specializes in anti-corruption investigations, has been added to the Interior Ministry’s wanted …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 22 2021, 2:45 pm
RFE/RL: Russian jailed after playing fictional ministry spokeswoman in online series
USSURIISK, Russia — A court in Russia’s Far East has sentenced a woman to three months in prison after she played the role of an Interior Ministry …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 22 2021, 12:19 pm
RFE/RL: Navalny dedicates top European rights award to world’s anti-corruption fighters
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has called his Sakharov Prize — the European Union’s top human rights honor — a “great …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 22 2021, 12:01 pm
UkrInform: US condemns Russia’s use of punitive psychiatry in Crimea
The United States condemns the use of punitive psychiatry by the Russian occupation authorities against those who disagree with the occupation of the …
UkrInform
Oct. 22 2021, 10:30 am
The Times: Journalists accuse Zelensky of purge on critics
Ukrainian journalists have appealed to Europe’s top human rights court after losing their jobs in the government’s purge of channels linked to a …
The Times
Oct. 22 2021, 10:14 am
RFE/RL: Jailed Crimean journalist appeals to Biden for help
Imprisoned RFE/RL freelance correspondent Vladyslav Yesypenko has appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. lawmakers to do more to free the more …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 22 2021, 9:35 am
UkrInform: Ukraine says Crimea occupation authorities widely using punitive psychiatry
Russia has been massively applying punitive psychiatry against Crimean residents speaking up against the occupation of the peninsula as 49 such cases …
UkrInform
Oct. 21 2021, 5:35 pm
BBC: Russian inmate who leaked torture videos alleges death threats
Sergey Savelyev doesn’t look like someone who spent eight years in a Russian prison and secretly gathered videos of apparent torture and beatings of …
BBC
Oct. 21 2021, 9:43 am
Associated Press: Belarusian authorities raid top independent newspaper
Authorities in Belarus on Oct. 20 raided the offices of the country’s top independent newspaper and took two of its journalists for questioning. Read …
Associated Press
Oct. 20 2021, 5:41 pm
The Daily Beast: This is how Russia is pulling off a free-for-all murderous rampage
Russia has turned the Central African Republic into a place where private mercenaries can run wild—assassinating one critic after another with no fear …
The Daily Beast
Oct. 20 2021, 4:26 pm
RFE/RL: Russia’s Navalny wins Sakharov Prize
Jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has been chosen as the winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Parliament’s …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 19 2021, 10:18 am
Associated Press: ‘Never lose hope,’ expelled French envoy tells Belarusians
PARIS — France says its ambassador to Belarus has been ordered out of the country amid growing tensions between Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko …
Associated Press
Oct. 18 2021, 4:10 pm
UkrInform: Over 400 Ukrainians being held in Russia, occupied territories
As many as 426 citizens of Ukraine are being held in inhumane conditions in detention centers in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of …
UkrInform
Oct. 18 2021, 4:06 pm
RFE/RL: OSCE says separatists in eastern Ukraine preventing monitors from leaving base
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says a group of its monitors overseeing a fragile cease-fire in eastern Ukraine have …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Oct. 18 2021, 1:29 pm
RFE/RL: Russian court to hold hearing in November into jailed US citizen Whelan’s appeal
A court in Russia will hold a hearing next month into an appeal by Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who is serving a lengthy prison term in Russia on …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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