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International community and partners of Uzbekistan should urge Uzbek government for accountability and transparency concerning the fate of victims of enforced disappearances. The UN General Assembly had declared August 30 the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances back…

FIDH and its member organization ADC Memorial  present Joint Press Release   The sentencing on 25 August of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic and antifascist activist Alexander Kolchenko to respectively 20 and 10 years of severe regime detention is…

Anti-discrimination center “Memorial” supports the statement issued by FARE (Football Against Racism), which spoke out against vilification of representatives of its member organization in Poland, “Never Again”. For many years FARE network brings together various initiative groups and associations for…

Tadzhikistan native Khurshed Mardonshoyev was freed from Saint Petersburg centre for detention of foreign nationals following 10 months imprisonment thanks to the efforts of his lawyer supported by ADC “Memorial”. This case was in many ways similar to the case…

In a few days, we will commemorate the liquidation 71 years ago of the so-called “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau. On 2 August 1944, 2 897 persons were taken to the gas chambers and exterminated. Only a few months earlier,…

  On June 6, 2015 LGBTI initiative “Comming Out” presented in Saint Petersburg its report on cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in 2014. The annual report was presented by Ksenia Kirichenko, a member of the…

In April and May of 2015, UNITED held several events at once aimed at strengthening the work of this network of non-commercial organizations fighting any manifestation of nationalism, racism, or fascism. The events focused specially on supporting refugees and migrants….

Saint Petersburg city court has overruled earlier decision by Kalininsky district court concerning deportation from Russia of two Ukrainian nationals originating from Gorlovka, where military conflict continues now. Danila and Denis S., two brothers, fled from Gorlovka to Russia together…

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…

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…