Feedback The recent request by the Federation Council to the Prosecutor General’s Office to consider 12 reputed NGOs as undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation will, if implemented, further isolate civil society and disrupt its legitimate work. The law…
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders welcomes the release of Mr. Nabeel Rajab but recalls that it is a positive but insufficient step since the Royal Pardon only concerns one of the three set of criminal charges…
ADC Memorial wishes to congratulate human rights defenders from Bir Duino – Kyrgyzstan with their victory in court. Our colleagues were able to prove that searches of the group’s offices in Osh and the homes of its attorneys were gross…
25.06.2015
Irkutsky Reporter: “People cannot simply be thrown out onto the street, be them Roma or Russian.”
About fifty people, including some thirty children, can become homeless in Irkutsk. Back in 2014 Leninsky district court ruled in a case of Irkutsk city administration against two persons that illegal housing (a Roma settlement) on 1st Kirovskaya street…
On June 8, 2015, ADC Memorial participated in a discussion about justice and the situation of human rights defenders. This discussion was organized by the ISHR and the British mission at the UN in Geneva. This event was timed to…
An unofficially built settlement, where about 50 Roma people, including women and children, live, may be demolished in Irkutsk. Settlements like the one in Irkutsk appeared in our country after 1956 when a decree banning Roma people from leading nomadic…