May 30, 2026 at 14:30 on Embassy of Russia (Rua Visconde de Santarém 71, Lisboa) there will be a 🙋 164th Weekly protest
🙋 162th Weekly protest
Massive attacks on Ukraine after cease-fire. Azat Miftakhov is tortured. Deforestation is on the map.
You’re watching news from the weekly rally in front of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon. Today is May 16th, 2:30 PM.
Unfortunately, the ceasefire was not extended after May 9.
On May 14, the BBC Russian Service reported that Russian forces launched a combined drone and missile attack on Kyiv. Part of an apartment building was destroyed in the Darnytskyi district. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said 24 people were killed, including three children. Another 48 people were injured. The day before, a massive drone strike killed three people in the Rivne region. In the Kherson region, a woman was killed and 20 people were wounded.www.bbc.com/russian/articles/ckgpy1pnddyo On May 13, Russia's State Duma said it had passed amendments to the laws "On Defense" and "On Citizenship of the Russian Federation" in their second and third readings. The amendments give the president the right to deploy the Armed Forces to protect Russian citizens who have been arrested, detained or prosecuted under rulings by foreign or international courts.
duma.gov.ru/news/63538/
On May 4, SOTAvision reported that political prisoner and mathematician Azat Miftakhov said he had been brutally tortured after being transferred to the Polar Owl prison colony in Kharp, the village made notorious by Alexei Navalny's imprisonment. "I struggled to breathe. I was suffocating and losing consciousness. When the screams died down, they stopped, waited for me to come to sences and started again," Miftakhov said. He said both prisoners cooperating with the administration and Federal Penitentiary Service officers took part in the torture.
x.com/Sota_Vision/status/2051394535910002725
The human rights project OVD-Info is asking for help pressing for a criminal investigation into the torture and ensuring Azat's safety. Sign the petition on the Dyatel platform.
dyatel.org/campaigns/save-azat/
www.facebook.com/reel/26825721210400807 Meanwhile, in May 2022 in Davos, China, where this timber is exported, promised to plant 70 billion trees at home by 2030.
www.weforum.org/press/2022/05/china-will-aim-to-plant-and-conserve-70-billion-trees-by-2030-as-part-of-the-global-tree-movement/ Russia is not their property.
Unite, build your communities, and support those who resist.
