A Perversion of Justice in Russia

Expand Anastasiya Shevchenko at her court hearing in Rostov-on-Don on January 23, 2019. © Alissa Vasilyeva, Rostov-on-Don, 2019 Last weekend, news broke that Russian police had placed a surveillance camera in the bedroom of Anastasiya Shevchenko, an activist currently facing criminal charges for involvement in an “undesirable” foreign organization. Shevchenko’s daughter, who posted the news on social media, also said Anastasiya’s apartment had been wired for nearly five months in 2018, prior to her initial arrest. Unbeknownst to Anastasiya, the police installed a hidden camera pointing at…

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