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On November 7-8, 2013 as part of Ukraine’s chairmanship in OSCE an additional meeting was held on the topic of human dimension and implementation of the plan for improving the situation of Roma and Sinti people. Ten years has passed…

Human Rights Watch Statement about the civil suits of prosecutor against  ADC “Memorial” and “Women of the Don”. Two independent organizations could become the first victims of new legal tactics by Russian prosecutors to limit human rights work. Having failed…

In July 2012 Stepan Patryshev approached ADC “Memorial” for legal assistance in the case of violation of his rights during a detention by the police officers of the 76th police station in Saint Petersburg, namely captain A.Koshelev, head of the…

Annual “March Against Hate”, which is held each year in memoriam of Nikolay Girenko, an expert on nationalism and xenophobia and human rights defender murdered by the Nazis in 2004, took place in Saint Petersburg on November 2. About 150-200…

In October 2013 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated an appeal presented by lawyer Dmitry Bartenev in the interests of Moldovan citizen, Mr. Kh., who is infected with HIV and was deprived of the right to join his family…

ADC “Memorial” was approached by three citizens of Uzbekistan who complained about the actions of the officers of Krasnoselsky district division of FMS in Saint Petersburg. Following raids held by the FMS officers against illegal immigrants in Krasnoselsky district, the…