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Moscow city court has accepted a claim by The Barents Observer to challenge Russia’s censorship and media regulation agency Roskomnadzor’s arguments to ban the newspaper. The Norwegian-based, bi-lingual newspaper has been blocked in Russia since February after it refused to…

Speaking at the panel “Shifting borders: statelessness in the context of changes of sovereignity” experts from ADC Memorial and The Right to Protection presented a new Human Rights report “Stateless in Russia and Ukraine: possible ways to overcom the problem”….

For the second time in 13 months, Roma have fled a Russian village for fear of attacks. Olga Abramenko, an expert on the Roma with the St. Petersburg-based Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center, said that tensions between Roma people and ethnic Russians…

Moscow City Court rejected a lawsuit against Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which was made by Johannes Rohr, a German expert on indigenous peoples. Rohr has challenged the decision of the FSB to ban him from entering Russia until 2069….

On this International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, ADC “Memorial’’ believes it is essential to remember two contemporary cases still making their way through the courts in St. Petersburg. In these two exceptionally telling cases, the accused not…

On 13 June 2018, prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, a major figure in the fight for human rights, was arrested and detained. Months later, in March 2019, she was handed a 33-year prison sentence and 148 lashes, following an unfair…