Under Attack: How Russian Civil Society Continues to Document and Report Human Rights Violations

Violetta Fitsner is a human rights lawyer and an advocacy officer at OVD-Info, an independent human rights defense and media group. She prepares reports and other submissions on the human rights situation in Russia to the UN mechanisms, the Council of Europe, and other institutions. Fitsner also specialises in strategic litigation and submits individual complaints to the UN Treaty Bodies and the WGAD, including in relation to cases of political persecution in Russia.

OVD-Info was awarded as Civil Rights Defender of the Year in September 2021.

Kirill Koroteev has been the head of international practice at Agora, an association of more than 100 lawyers and other legal professionals working on landmark human rights, since April 2019. Since 2002, he has represented numerous applicants before the European Court of Human Rights in cases brought against Russia and also Georgia and Ukraine. Koroteev acted as a human rights expert for Penal Reform International, Kyrgyzstan Inquiry Commission, Institute for Law and Public Policy (Moscow), and as a chargé de mission for the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH, Paris).

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