On December 18, 2017 passed away Arseny Roginsky, the Chairman of the Board of the International Memorial Society. He had been fighting for historical truth and Human Rights years before the foundation of the MEMORIAL movement and paid for this fight…
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ENS Newsletter – December 2017
The December 2017 edition of the ENS newsletter includes an interview with Adam Weiss, Executive Director of the European Roma Rights Centre and the latest updates on statelessness and nationality law in Europe. Also includes joint submission to the Universal…
The Dzerzhinsky district court of St. Petersburg, after considering the legal appeal made by a lawyer who cooperated with ADC “Memorial”, on behalf of Mrs. U., an Uzbek citizen, ruled on November 22, 2017 to release her from the temporary…
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released the concluding observations on the combined twentieth to twenty-third periodic report of Belarus, following the CERD 94th session in November 2017. The Committee made recommendations related to information provided by ADC…
In Memoriam: Nikolay Bessonov
Suddenly, the news came in of the untimely death of Nikolay Bessonov, a Russian artist, researcher of Russian Roma and a great friend of the Romani people. The legacy of Bessonov is vast and varied, he worked very hard –…
Mrs. V, a citizen of Ukraine, has recently fallen victim of a kind of “know-how” of the Russian judicial system: she was convicted twice on the same day, September 11, 2017, during the session of the Kalininsky district court of…