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The Magnitsky Human Rights Awards were established in 2015 by Bill Browder, named in honour of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in custody after uncovering a government corruption scheme. [1] His death led to the creation of the Magnitsky Act, which sanctions human rights violators globally by freezing their assets and banning their ...
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a prominent Russian human rights advocate and Kremlin critic, has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary written from his prison cell.
A Russian business-oriented weekly magazine named Putin as its Person of the Year. [46] 5 October 2008 Vladimir Putin Avenue: The central street of Grozny, the capital of Russia's Republic of Chechnya, was renamed from the Victory Avenue to the Vladimir Putin Avenue, as ordered by the Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov. [47] 17 February 2011
Memorial, founded in 1989, has defended freedom of speech and documented human rights abuses from the time of Soviet leader Jo Russia jails rights campaigner from Nobel prize-winning group Skip to ...
This list of human rights awards is an index to articles about notable awards given for the promotion of human rights. These are moral principles or social norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law . [ 1 ]
A Ukrainian human rights activist set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize next week says world leaders must create a special international tribunal to place Russian President Vladimir Putin and large ...
Memorial (Russian: Мемориал, IPA: [mʲɪmərʲɪˈaɫ]) is an international human rights organisation, founded in Russia during the fall of the Soviet Union to study and examine the human rights violations and other crimes committed under Joseph Stalin's reign.
Putin added a sanctioned pro-war journalist and a leader from the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" to a group set up to support human rights.