UN Forum

An update on the ongoing detention of Daria Egereva and Natalya Leongardt: the two Russian Indigenous rights advocates, arrested in December on terrorism charges, had their pretrial detention extended last month until at least June. Egereva, a Selkup climate activist, was scheduled to attend the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York next week but now faces up to 20 years in prison. The case underscores escalating repression against environmental and human rights defenders.