Defence of the NGO's

Brussels, 19 May 2013 On 17 May 2013, the European Union and the Russian Federation held their seventeenth round of human rights consultations in Brussels, allowing the EU to raise its growing concerns on the developments affecting human rights in…

Checks of non-commercial organizations in Russia, which have started in late March this year and took more than a month, have consumed a lot of time and energy of the human rights defenders, including the staff of ADC “Memorial”. The…

GENEVA (14 May 2013) – Three United Nations independent human rights experts today expressed serious concern at the “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” brought about by the current implementation in the Russian Federation of the law on ‘non-commercial organizations’ (NCOs),…

May 7, 2013, Saint-Petersburg. Antidiscrimination centre (ADC) “Memorial” has appealed to the UN Committee against Torture with a request to witness in its defense in a court case against it which will consider whether ADC should be registered as a…

The attorney from the Admiralty district of St. Petersburg saw signs of “a call against the current government and state structures” in the November 2012 human rights report of the UN Committee against Torture. As evidence, prosecutors quoted multiple times…

Starting March 26, 2013 procurator’s offices carry out checks of the private charitable establishment ADC “Memorial”. Thousands of copies of documents were requested to be provided, while the admnistration of the organization has spent hours and hours answering the questions…