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Amnesty International: Russian anti-war politician’s sentencing is ‘arbitrary prosecution’

Post author:Grace
Post published:19 August 2026
Post last modified:19 August 2026

Amnesty International has highlighted the recent conviction of Russian anti-war politician, journalist and human-rights activist Lev Sholsberg. On 17 August 2026, the Pskov City Court sentenced Shlosberg to over 11 years in a penal colony for spreading false information and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. Shlosberg is the deputy chair of the Yabloko Party. Amnesty described Yabloko as: the only registered Russian political party which has consistently opposed Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and campaigned for a ceasefire. Sholsberg — ‘I am the Russian Federation’ In particular, the Pskov City Court sentenced Shlosberg under Article 280.3(1) of the Russian Criminal…

Africa Corps: Russian cluster munitions found in Malian village despite national ban

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:29 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Russian cluster munitions have been found in a Malian village. Mali is a signatory to the cluster bomb convention, though Russia is not. Russia’s mercenary group Africa Corps is currently operating in the west African state where a civil war is taking place. Investigative group Bellingcat identified the munitions in a 26 May report: Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets, as well as damage consistent with bomblet impacts, have been found in a village in northern Mali – despite the West African country being a state party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) which prohibits their use. Radio France International first…

Labour chair to Farage: report your so-called Russian hack to the authorities, or I will

Post author:Alex/Rose Cocker
Post published:28 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

Labour chair Anna Turley has issued an ultimatum to Nigel Farage: he has 24 hours to report his claim to have been a victim of a Russian hack to security services. If not, Turley plans to do it for him. It’s “in the public and national interest” to make sure that a possible attack by a foreign state is investigated properly, according to the letter Turley sent to the Reform leader. Farage needs to sound the espionage alarms On 23 May, Farage claimed that counter-espionage experts employed by Reform had found proof that Russian hackers used spear phishing to break into…