🙋 126th Weekly protest
Deportations of asylum seekers to Russia. Is torture now permitted? Help Ukraine prepare for winter.
You're watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is August 30, 2:30 PM.
On August 27, the human rights project “No to Gulag,” citing its sources, reported that more than 50 people, including dozens of asylum seekers, had been deported from the United States to Russia. They underwent hours of coercive interrogation, were pressured to “cooperate,” and case materials for criminal prosecution were collected.
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On August 29, the media outlet “We Can Explain,” citing acquaintances of the deportees, reported that one of them had been detained. They also noted that Leonid Melehin, a Navalny’s team volunteer who was deported after being denied political asylum at the end of July, is in a pretrial detention center.
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That same day, our colleague in the U.S., Dmitry Valuev, president of “Russian America for Democracy in Russia,” told Deutsche Welle that judges are not granting political asylum even to people criminally prosecuted in Russia for their views. According to their rough estimates, about a thousand Russians are awaiting decisions from U.S. authorities.
www.dw.com/ru/ludi-prosat-spasti-ih-zizni-kak-deportiruut-iz-ssa-v-rossiu/a-73815759
Later in the evening, immigration lawyer Yulia Nikolaeva said on the program “The Stream” that under U.S. law, deportations are to the country of citizenship. Recently, the practice of deportation to third countries has also begun. Uganda and several other countries have so far expressed their readiness to accept these people.
www.youtube.com/live/aeWXh8B9kpo?feature=shared&t=4808
An online video shows a Wagner PMC fighter walking into a cafe in Uganda where locals are listening to the Russian band Butyrka, named after a pretrial detention center.
pikabu.ru/story/boets_vagnera_zashel_v_kafe_v_ugande_11005199
www.dw.com/ru/rossia-namerena-denonsirovat-evropejskuu-konvenciu-protiv-pytok/a-73764570 On August 26, Mediazona reported that former Yandex employee Sergei Irin was sentenced to 15 years in a maximum-security prison for donating to the Ukrainian “Come Back Alive” foundation. In April 2024, he returned to Russia to visit his mother and brother and meet with friends.
zona.media/news/2025/08/26/irin On August 29, our colleague, Irina Vesikko, a Democratic Community of Russian-Speakers in Finland's activist, was labeled a “foreign agent” in Russia.
ovd.info/express-news/2025/08/29/aktivisty-zhurnalisty-emigranty-snova-popali-v-reestr-inoagentov Reflecting on recent events and their conductors, Rusya Rassvet shares with you her new poem: “Violin and Power.”
youtube.com/shorts/9nU1W7BAxjo
As a result of the Russian shelling of Kyiv on the night of August 28, 23 people have died and another 53 were injured. Of these, 22, including four children, died in a five-story building destroyed in the Darnytskyi district. Friday was a day of mourning in Kyiv.
www.bbc.com/russian/articles/czd0654d1mjo
Summer is ending. Volodymyr Omelchenko, director of energy and infrastructure programs at the Razumkov Center, said on the KIEV24 channel that, given the constant shelling, there is a risk that some regions of Ukraine will have no heating this winter.
www.unian.net/economics/energetics/otopitelnyy-sezon-2025-26-ekspert-nazval-regiony-ukrainy-kotorye-mogut-zamerznut-13108983.html
We remind you that the fundraiser for portable power stations for hospitals and schools in Ukraine is ongoing.
antiwarcommittee.info/energyforua/
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