OVD-Info is an independent human rights defense and media group. We help those who are unjustly persecuted and our final goal is the complete end of political persecution in Russia. Politically motivated detentions, dismissals from work, interrogations, house searches and arrests take place in Russia almost daily, especially now, as with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin intensified its war on our civil society.
Ever since Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the persecution of human rights projects and of independent media has become a mass phenomenon - because of the en-masse websites blocking and the establishment of war censorship, many media projects were forced to stop or to suspend their activity. After February the 24th, OVD-Info started getting lots of help requests because of the persecution for expressing an anti-war position, social media posts, public statements, etc.
In today's Russia anyone can face persecution: anti-war protesters, eco-activist, truckers, defrauded shareholders, corruption fighters, electors, politicians, priests, civic activists anyone. Our goal is to protect them. The project expands the mandate to legal aid and begins assisting in court cases involving violations of the right to freedom of expression, and also regularly publishes reports on the repression of anti-war activists in three languages - Russian, English and Ukrainian.
We focus on the freedoms of assembly and expression but our work extends further. We collect and publish data about political repressions in Russia; we coordinate legal aid to the unjustly persecuted and we work on systematic transformations in the human rights sphere.
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