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Jana Helmel
Human rights defenders
1984-05-10
Not in Russia
Biography
A resident of Yekaterinburg and a human rights activist, she worked at the "In Defense of Prisoners' Rights" foundation and at several Yekaterinburg-based human rights organizations, including the "Legal Foundation" association, the "Independence and Law" non-profit organization, and the "Interregional Human Rights Center." She specialized in defending the rights of prisoners, regularly visiting Sverdlovsk pre-trial detention centers and colonies together with human rights defender Alexei Sokolov and members of the Sverdlovsk Public Monitoring Commission. In November 2024, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against Gelmel, and she was placed on the wanted list. Details of the
A resident of Yekaterinburg and a human rights activist, she worked at the "In Defense of Prisoners' Rights" foundation and at several Yekaterinburg-based human rights organizations, including the "Legal Foundation" association, the "Independence and Law" non-profit organization, and the "Interregional Human Rights Center." She specialized in defending the rights of prisoners, regularly visiting Sverdlovsk pre-trial detention centers and colonies together with human rights defender Alexei Sokolov and members of the Sverdlovsk Public Monitoring Commission. In November 2024, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against Gelmel, and she was placed on the wanted list. Details of the case are unknown.