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"It is a very fair judgement and I am satisfied", says Alexei Navalny after the European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia's repeated arrests of the opposition leader were politically motivated and orders the state to pay a 50,000 Euro fine. SOUNDBITE (completes VID1264546_EN)
Images show a police bus and Memorial supporters outside the Russian human rights organisation's office as police search the inside. Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of the nobel prize-winning human rights organisation, for "discrediting" the army. The searches took place as President Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for talks. IMAGES
Ukraine's SOUNDBITE
The UN General Assembly votes in favour of suspending Russia from the UN Human Rights Council as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine. Of the 193 members of the assembly, 93 vote in favor of suspension while 24 vote against and 58 abstain, suggesting weakening international unity against Russia. IMAGES
Moscow, Aug 13 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Sergei Ilnitsky) The Sakharov Center in Moscow hosted on Friday the funeral for Sergei Kovalev, activist and leader of the pro-democracy movement in the USSR, who died at the age of 91.FOOTAGE OF THE FUNERAL.
Russian police arrests demonstrators who gathered in front of the FSB building to protest against the detention of a prominent 77-year-old human rights activist, Lev Ponomarev, and the 'arbitrariness' of Russian security forces. The 'March for peace' that was supposed to take place instead was not authorised by Moscow's government. IMAGES of protesters getting arrested