Zoya Svetova is a campaigning journalist living and working in Moscow. Her work has been recognized by both Amnesty International and the Russian Union of Journalists, and she is twice-laureate of the Sakharov Prize "for journalism as an act of conscience". Zoya also serves as a member of the Moscow Public Oversight Commission for prisons.
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Published in: oDRSergei Magnitsky: sanctions in the name of justice
It is nearly two years since Sergei Magnitsky died a shocking death in Moscow's Matrosskaya Tishina prison. Since...
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part III
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part II
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part I
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRIgor Sutyagin and the price of freedom
The imprisonment of military researcher Igor Sutyagin for alleged espionage has long troubled Russian human rights...
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Published in: oDRPrison as a death sentence
The death in custody of Sergei Magnitsky in November shocked the world and mobilised President Medvedev into a...