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Hunger Strikes as Russian and Soviet Protest Tools April 1, 2021 Anatoly Marchenko, Oleg Sentsov, Andrei Sakharov. Wikicommons, FSIN / MT Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny announced Wednesday that he is going on hunger strike to demand medical treatment and an end to “torturous” sleep deprivation in one of Russia’s most notorious prison colonies. Hunger strikes as a tool of protest date back to the Soviet era, when solo dissidents or even entire groups of prisoners would forgo eating — sometimes fatally — in hope...

The FIFDH announces the winners of its 19th edition Veins of the World, have received the Grand Prizes of the festival Shadow Game by Eefje Blankevoort and Els Van Driel The 19 thGeneva’s International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) has wrapped its first digital edition with the announcement of its winners. Running from 5 to 14 March, the event gathered nearly 45,000 people who watched the films, debates and various content available online. “While we regret not having been able to open this Festival to a physical audience, some of the experiments carried out this year wi...

23:45, 04.03.21 Politics 328 Currently, there are over 100 political prisoners from Ukraine being held in Russia or occupied Crimea, while at least another 150 are being held by Russian proxies in Donbas. Photo from UNIAN Over a dozen former prisoners of Vladimir Putin's regime who were eventually released from Russian captivity are launching a platform aimed to help free the remaining political prisoners still held by Russia and its proxy forces. The founders presented the Platform at ...

By Published March 5. Updated March 5 at 10:52 am Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kolchenko (L) and Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov (R) holding their first press conference on Sept. 10, 2019, after release from Russian custody. Photo by Volodymyr Petrov Seventeen Ukrainians who were persecuted, with most tortured and imprisoned, in Russia; occupied Crimea or Donbas have launched a platform aimed at ensuring that the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners and hostages is firmly on the agenda...

The FIFDH rethinks its entire 2021 edition Dear Future Children by Franz Böhm Now at its 19th edition, Geneva’s International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), the biggest international event dedicated to this particular field, is once again having to contend with the pandemic, revising its entire programme. It’s a challenge which the festival’s director Isabelle Gattiker describes as an opportunity to experiment and to discover films outside of those screened, thanks to the creation of original sound and video content in the form of a daily radio programme, a series of...