Archive for 'Freedom of Assembly'
A search held in the flat of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the Yabloko branch in the Maritime Territory
Press Release, 6.02.2021 In the photo: Marina Zheleznyakova / Photo from the personal page on Facebook In Vladivostok, police officers searched the apartment of Marina Zheleznyakova, Deputy Chair of the regional branch of Yabloko in the Maritime Territory.
Posted: February 8th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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The Сhair of the Tambov branch of Yabloko fined in a trumped-up case of organising a rally
Press Release, 5.02.2021 In the photo: Yana Zenkina / Yana Zenkina’s personal page in the Vkontakte social network The Leninsky District Court of Tambov sentenced Yana Zenkina, Chair of the Tambov regional branch of the Yabloko party, to a fine of 20,000 roubles. A case was initiated against the leader of the regional branch of […]
Posted: February 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Member of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko fined 150,000 roubles for a single picket
Press Release, 5.02.2021 In the photo: Daria Bolshakova /Photo by the Press Service of the Kaliningrad branch of Yabloko The judge of the Central District Court of the city of Kaliningrad found Daria Bolshakova, a member of the Kaliningrad branch of the Yabloko party, guilty of committing a repeated violation of Article 20.2 Part 8 […]
Posted: February 5th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Online lecture by Andrei Babushkin “How to behave during an arrest”
Press Release, 5.02.2021 In the photo: Andrei Babushkin / the Yabloko party Press Service On February 10, Yabloko will host a Zoom-lecture by Andrei Babushkin, human rights defender and member of the Yabloko Party Bureau, “How to behave during an arrest”. The lecture will start at 19:00. The lecture will cover the issues one needs […]
Posted: February 5th, 2021 under Conferences and Seminars, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights.
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The Yabloko Chairman demanded from the Public Prosecutor of Tatarstan to punish the security officials who put detained peaceful protesters face in the snow
Press Release, 4.02.2021 Photo by Artyom Mokhov Yabloko party Chairman Nikolai Rybakov demanded that Public Prosecutor of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildus Nafikov find and punish the law enforcement officers who, during the rally, unreasonably and toughly detained about 50 protesters. The Yabloko Chairman recalled that on January 31, 2021, officers of the security forces […]
Posted: February 4th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Yabloko leader Nikolai Rybakov demanded that the Russian Public Prosecutor General and the Moscow Mayor lift restrictions on street actions
Press Release, 4.02.2021 Nikolai Rybakov wrote to the Public Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the Mayor of Moscow demanding that the restrictions on public events be lifted. A number of bans on holding mass events, in particular, sports events, have already been canceled in whole or in part. However, the ban on public […]
Posted: February 4th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Street Actions.
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Boris Vishnevsky: St. Petersburg has turned into a zone of lawlessness and police rule
Speech by the head of the Yabloko faction in the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, 3.02.2021 Photo: Boris Vishnevsky/ photo from the official website of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Laws have been passed in this room for more than a quarter of a century. However, for the past ten days St. Petersburg has ceased […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko Chairman demanded that the Rector of Astrakhan University reinstate the students expelled from the university
Press Release, 3.02.2021 Photo: Konstantin Markelov, Rector of Astrakhan State University/ photo from the official website of Astrakhan State University Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov, sent an appeal to Konstantin Markelov, Rector of Astrakhan State University, demanding that the unlawfully expelled students be reinstated. On 29 January, 2021, the Rector expelled three students “in an administrative […]
Posted: February 3rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Yabloko’s call centre continues to provide aid to detained protesters on 31 January
Press Release, 31.01.2021 In the Yabloko party’s federal call centre for assistance to those detained at the actions of 31 January continues its work. Lawyers and party activists work in the call centre. The call centre coordinates its work with the OVD-Info project providing information on the detained and legal aid to them and other […]
Posted: February 1st, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia.
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Protests and the tasks of the opposition
Statement by the Yabloko party, 29.01.2021 A new wave of political repression, targeted against a wide range of Russian citizens, the entire protesting civil society in Russia, has emerged. The public protest is caused by people’s fatigue and unacceptability for them of the twenty years of irreplaceable authoritarian rule by Vladimir Putin and the prospects […]
Posted: January 30th, 2021 under Economy, Elections, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Murder of Boris Nemtsov, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Social Policies, The Murder of Larissa Yudina, The Murder of Natalya Estemirova, Timur Kuashev's case, YABLOKO against Corruption.
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Lev Shlosberg was fined 20,000 roubles for offering protesters to go to Hyde Park on January 23
Press Release, 26.01.2021 Photo: Lev Shlosberg with his lawyer Tatyana Martynova in front of the building of the Pskov City Court / Photo by Lyudmila Savitskaya Lev Shlosberg was fined 20,000 roubles for offering protesters of the action of 23 January in support of Alexei Navalny and political prisoners to go to Hyde Park, the […]
Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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An administrative case was filed against Lev Shlosberg for “organisation of an unpermitted public event”
Press Release, 26.01.2021 Photo: The police banned peaceful protesters from entering the Hyde Park in Pskov on January 23, 2021 / Photo by Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Pskov On the morning of January 26, the police reclassified the events of Pskov on January 23, which they charge Lev Shlosberg, member of the Yabloko party Federal […]
Posted: January 28th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Boris Vishnevsky: For your and our freedom. Fighting for those who are imprisoned means defending yourself. To those who have not been taken to the police van yet
Novaya Gazeta, 26.10.2020 The public activity that has manifested itself in the recent days in protecting Alexei Navalny from political persecution is very high. I would like to hope that this will lead to an increase in public activity in defending other political prisoners, and there are hundreds of them in Russia. “We came out […]
Posted: January 27th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia.
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The Yabloko branch in Kalmykia picketed in support of political prisoners
Press Release, 25.01.2021 In the photo: Batyr Boromangnayev with a placard “Free political prisoners!” / the Kalmykian branch of Yabloko On 23 January, Batyr Boromangnayev, Chairman of the Kalmykian branch of the Yabloko party, held a single picket in Elista, capital of Kalmykia, in support of political prisoners in Russia and solidarity with imprisoned Ingush […]
Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko to Russian universities: do not expel students who participated in the protest actions
Statement by the Yabloko party, 25.01.2021 The Yabloko party turns to heads of [Russian] educational institutions urging them to prevent expulsion of pupils and students who took part in political actions.
Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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Yabloko calls heads of educational institutions to prevent expulsion of pupils and students who took part in political actions
Facebook post by Nikolai Rybakov, 25.01.2021 Photo: The placard runs: “I have the right to choose” The Yabloko party calls heads of educational institutions to prevent expulsion of pupils and students who took part in political actions. This is contrary to the Russian Constitution, belies the common sense and will lead to exasperation and radicalisation. […]
Posted: January 25th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Без рубрики.
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On the eve of protest rallies, Yabloko members were arrested in Arkhangelsk and Yakutsk
Press Release, 23.01.2021 Anatoly Nogovitsyn. Photo from the Anatoly Nogovitsyn’s personal archive Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Chairman of the Yakutsk branch of Yabloko, was arrested for 20 days. Administrative arrests for 48 hours have been assigned to members of the Arkhangelsk branch of Yabloko Yuri Chesnokov and the Deputy Chairman of the regional branch of the party […]
Posted: January 24th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Protests in Russia, Yabloko's Regional Branches.
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Yabloko launched a call centre to help detained protesters on 23 January
Press Release, 23.01.2021 In the Yabloko party launched a federal call centre for assistance to those detained at the rallies on 23 January. Lawyers and party activists work in the call centre. The call centre coordinates its work with the OVD-Info project providing information on the detained and legal aid to them and other human […]
Posted: January 23rd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Без рубрики.
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On the street protests on 23 January, 2021
Statement by the Yabloko party, 22.01.2021 An unlawful repressive state with the unlimited personal, irreplaceable power of Vladimir Putin has been formed in Russia. The laws are being applied in the way that Putin and his ruling group wish. The regime will use unlimited brutality and force against protesters. Protesters must be fully aware of […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Poisoning of Alexei Navalny, Protests in Russia, YABLOKO against Corruption, Без рубрики.
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“This is not an accident, it can happen over and over again.” Yabloko laid flowers at the place of murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova
Press Release, 19.01.2021 Photo by the Yabloko Press Service Leaders and activists of the Yabloko party laid flowers at the scene of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova at Prechistenka 3 in Moscow. Markelov and Baburova were shot dead by neo-Nazis on 19 January, 2009.
Posted: January 20th, 2021 under Freedom of Assembly, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia.
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