Co-chair, Moscow Helskinki Group
Dmitri Makarov is the youngest member of the Moscow Helsinki group. He focuses on issues like freedom of assembly, right to a fair trial, police impunity, citizen oversight over the courts, police and prisons, as well as human rights education and sustainable support for the human rights movements.
Dmitri Makarov is the youngest member of the Moscow Helsinki group, the oldest functioning human rights organization in the post-Soviet space. In January 2018 he was elected as one of its co-chairs. Dmitri started as an activist in the international Youth Human Rights movement, initiated and participated in a number of civic and human rights initiatives, focusing on the right to protest [Legal Team for Activists], assembly and court observation, police oversight [Joint Public Monitoring Team, Court through Citizen’s eyes and others], as well as human rights field missions in Belarus, Central Asia and Crimea. He focuses on issues like freedom of assembly, right to a fair trial, police impunity, citizen oversight over the courts, police and prisons, as well as human rights education and sustainable support for the human rights movements.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies