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Human Rights Watch | Russia: Bleak Year for Human Rights
Oyub Titiev stands in front of a portrait of his murdered colleague, Natalia Estemirova, in Memorial's Grozny office,
Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
It was not possible to investigate Chechnya, which has been reported to imprison, torture and murder members of the LGBT community.
In occupied Crimea, Russian authorities continued targeting pro-Ukraine activists and Crimean Tatars for their vocal opposition to Russia’s abuses and occupation of the peninsula.
Oyub Titiev stands in front of a portrait of his murdered colleague, Natalia Estemirova, in Memorial's Grozny office,
Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
by HRW
1/17/19
(Moscow) – The Russian government relentlessly reduced space for peaceful dissent, political opposition, and civic activism in Russia during 2018, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2019.
The authorities used the rhetoric of “traditional values” and countering extremism to justify limiting free speech. Many human rights defenders, civic activists, lawyers, opposition activists, and average citizens paid a price for not conforming to the government’s political agenda.
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It was not possible to investigate Chechnya, which has been reported to imprison, torture and murder members of the LGBT community.
In occupied Crimea, Russian authorities continued targeting pro-Ukraine activists and Crimean Tatars for their vocal opposition to Russia’s abuses and occupation of the peninsula.