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    16 March 2020

    On 13 March 2020, human rights defender and co-chair of Ecodefense! Vladimir Slivyak was detained during a protest against coal mining in Novokuznetsk and held at a police station for half an hour. On the same day, police stopped a bus with participants of a press tour on coal mining organised by Ecodefense! and held it up for an hour near Novokuznetsk without providing any explanation. This is not the first time Ecodefense! has been targeted for its peaceful human rights activities.

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    20 March 2020

    On 14 March 2020, human rights defender Lev Ponomarev was violently detained during a peaceful protest against political repression held in front of the Federal Security Service (FSS) headquarters in Moscow. He was taken to a police station, where he was beaten. He was released on the same day and had to be hospitalised.

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    10 February 2020

    On 6 February 2020, a group of unknown individuals violently attacked lawyer Marina Dubrovina and journalist Elena Milashina in the lobby of the Continent hotel in Grozny, Chechnya. The human rights defenders were in Grozny for the court hearing of Islam Nukhanov.

     

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    24 June 2019

    On 19 June 2019, the environmental rights organisation “Ecodefense” issued a public statement on the five criminal cases opened against its director Aleksandra Korolyova on charges of “malicious failure to comply with a court order”. The charges are linked to the organisation’s non-compliance with the discriminatory requirements of the “foreign agents law”.

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