Source: HRO.org (info) 

• Nizhny Novgorod region  Human rights defenders  Persecution of activists

In Nizhny Novgorod in the early morning of Sunday 4 November there was an attack on the apartment of human rights defender Stanislav Dmitrievsky. "My wife has just phoned. There was an attack on my home at 4:30 in the morning. Both CCTV cameras were torn out, the glass in the kitchen window was broken (we live on the first floor), the key hole of the main door into the apartment was filled with cement," Dmitrievsky wrote on his Facebook page. At that time his wife and child were at home. Dmitrievsky himself was at a conference in Sweden. Police were called to the apartment but refused to call out investigators, Grani.ru reports. [Read more]