Daria Egereva, a prominent Indigenous Selkup climate advocate and co-chair of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change, was scheduled to address the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York this month; however, instead of representing the voices of Russia’s Northern peoples on the global stage, she remains incarcerated in a Russian detention center facing charges that could result in a 20-year prison sentence. Egereva, who has spent years documenting the intersection of environmental degradation and Indigenous rights, was arrested on December 17, 2023, alongside Natalya Leongardt, another respected advocate for Indigenous rights whose involvement in the case was only recently confirmed by legal observers....