Tag: opposition

Hearing in the Italian Senate on July 9 – 11th 2012.

Hearing in the Italian Senate on July 9 – 11th 2012.

To date, four opposition leaders who were charged under several articles of the Criminal Code in the so-called case on “incitement of social hatred” still remain in custody

Ayzhangul Amirova, an activist of the opposition movement ‘Khalyk Maidany’ was released from custody where she has remained since the 6th of January, 2012.

On 21 June 2012 in the United Nations Offices in Geneva (UNOG)

Irina Mednikova, the editor of the “Voice of the Republic” newspaper, and the head of the Publications Dissemination Department, Yulia Kozlova, were detained by officers of the Department of the National Security Committee.

Interview with Igor Vinyavskiy, the editor of the ‘Vzglyad’ newspaper, given after his release.

In 2011, a unprecedented social protest movement prolonged by a violent uprising, a wave of odd attacks and the Head of State’s health problems made the authorities even more nervous, causing them to tighten their control over information, especially online.