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Published in: oDRMeet the Ukrainian mothers battling for their sons held in Russian prison
Families of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russian jails are fighting for their release – and this struggle is...
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Published in: oDROleh Sentsov, Olexander Kolchenko and the meaning of solidarity
As filmmaker Oleh Sentsov enters Day 71 of his hunger strike to release all Ukrainian political prisoners, it’s...
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Published in: oDRThe struggle for freedom of speech in Tajikistan: Khayrullo Mirsaidov and the question of international responsibility
The conviction of a well-known journalist once again raises the question of the international community’s attitude...
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Published in: oDRKhayrullo Mirsaidov: the journalist from Tajikistan who received 12 years in prison for his honesty and courage
The west cannot preach democracy and free media in Tajikistan while leaving the locals who implement these...
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Published in: oDRHow the Russian authorities fabricated criminal charges against Crimean farmer Volodymyr Balukh
The prosecution of Volodymyr Balukh, who has been on hunger strike since 19 March, has been a show trial for those...
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Published in: oDRHow Russia’s security services target Crimean Tatars as “Islamic terrorists”
In the four years since the peninsula’s annexation, Russian security services have become well practiced at...
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Published in: oDRWomen’s rights in Russia's North Caucasus: between “national traditions” and “ordinary” murders
How the Russian state authorities supports “national traditions” that infringe on the rights of women in the Caucasus. RU
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Published in: oDRWhat’s behind China’s anti-Kazakh campaign?
If you're an ethnic Kazakh or a Kazakh citizen in northwest China, you can face detention on espionage and extremism...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow Assad tortures and kills Syria’s pacifist young leftists
Why is it that the brightest peaceful activists who preach freedom against violence are the first to be killed by...
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Published in: oDRNo defence in Chechnya: Oyub Titiyev and the grim future of human rights in Russia’s North Caucasus
The prosecution of a Chechen human rights campaigner is a landmark step in the systematic elimination of civil...
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Published in: oDRLights in the distance
A new book on migration processes in the European Union foregrounds human stories, militarising borders and Europe’s...
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Published in: oDRHow Russia and Uzbekistan cooperate on the kidnap trail to Central Asia
People leave Uzbekistan seeking safety and work in Russia. But what they find is prosecution and abduction.
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Published in: oDRFor Eurasia’s activists, no place is a safe haven
Existence of regional safety hubs is key to alleviating Eurasia’s human rights crisis.
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Published in: oDRA new era of crimes against humanity in Eurasia
A wave of brutal crackdowns on LGBT communities in the post-Soviet space has exposed civil society’s shortcomings —...
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Published in: oDRSvetlana Sidorkina: “Defending the innocent is the most difficult thing of all”
Svetlana Sidorkina, one of Russia’s leading human rights lawyers, talks about how hard the Russian justice system...
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan’s authoritarianism goes digital
2018 is an election year in Azerbaijan. The authorities may have the streets on lockdown, but the fight against...
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Published in: oDRAfgan Mukhtarli: behind bars, but not forgotten
This fearless journalist was abducted from the streets of Tbilisi and wound up in an Azerbaijani jail cell. We need...
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Published in: oDR“We refused everything France wanted to give us”: Oksana Shalygina’s first post-prison interview
This time last year, performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky and Oksana Shalygina fled Russia under threat of...
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Published in: oDR“I got called in by the KGB. They said there were no LGBT people in Transnistria”
In Transnistria, an unrecognised territory between Moldova and Ukraine, documentary photography is becoming one of...
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Published in: oDRWho killed Iryna Nozdrovska?
The murder of a prominent female lawyer in Ukraine questions the progress of reform and revolution.