Overview

• Over the year from mid‑2024, at least 3,905 people were convicted on administrative or criminal charges for peaceful dissent, the UN report says.
• The report documents at least 258 cases of torture in 2024/25 by law enforcement, prison staff and inmate proxies, including against Ukrainian detainees.
• Katzarova reports a resurgence of punitive psychiatry with an average of 23 documented cases annually since 2022, citing journalist Maria Ponomarenko’s compulsory treatment and new 10‑year sentence.
• By mid‑July, authorities had designated 1,040 individuals and organizations as “foreign agents,” including 133 additions since January, and placed more than 150 children aged 14–17 on extremist or terrorist lists.
• Russia’s diplomatic mission in Geneva said Moscow does not recognize the rapporteur’s mandate and called her work illegitimate.