October 26, 2010 | admin

According to news from Finnish-Russian Civic Forum’s website, Finnish authorities have granted asylum to the Russian journalist and human rights defender, Elena Maglevannaya.

September 3, 2010 | admin

For her reporting, Elena Maglevannaya was accused of libel, found guilty by a court, sentenced to publish a refutation and pay an approximately $6,5000 penalty. Maglevannaya had never seen that much money in her entire life. A professional lawyer, she worked as a freelancer for the local newspaper Svobodnoe Slovo in her hometown of Volgograd in Southern Russia. The highest honorarium she ever received rarely exceeded $30. But it was not the absence of money that upset her the most.

July 7, 2010 | admin

The Russian freelance journalist and human rights activist, Elena Maglevannaya, who has applied for asylum in Finland, continues her work at the refugee reception centre in Joutseno, on the Finnish-Russian border.

June 11, 2010 | admin

A group of human rights defenders and journalists demand from Finland to political asylum for Russian journalist Elena Maglevannaya.

November 11, 2009 | admin

A group of well-known human rights defenders appealed to Antonio Guterres, the head of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; UNCHR office in Azerbaijan; and Micheal Posner, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of U.S. State Department, on the special situation of a Chechen family and Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan.

June 21, 2009 | admin

The well known human rights activists have send a statement to The General Prosecutor of Russian Federation and The Ombudsman of Russian Federation in connection with the illegal detention of Maskhud Abdullaev.