On September 24, Sarah Reinke, a representative of the Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV), delivered one thousand signatures to Germany’s Federal Foreign Office in Berlin in support of an appeal calling for action to secure the release of Daria Egereva and Natalia Leongardt. The campaign account December 17 Case reported the handover.

At the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, German representative Nikola Gillhoff spoke during a discussion of the UN Secretary-General’s report on intimidation and reprisals against individuals cooperating with the United Nations.

Following last weekend’s elections in Russia, representatives from Russia’s Indigenous Peoples and the Russian opposition have released a statement condemning the results. At a meeting in the Navajo Nation’s Washington DC Office, representatives adopted two resolutions.

Representatives of Indigenous Peoples of Russia and the Russian opposition spoke OUT against the election results and FOR the release of Daria Egereva and Natalia Leongardt in a joint statement

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov has called on US negotiators to raise the issue of releasing political prisoners in meetings with Vladimir Putin