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On June 2-3, 2014 International forum “Cooperation in defending the rights of labor migrants through human rights mechanisms” has taken place in Issyk-Kul region in Kyrgyzstan. The forum was organized by the Civic Platform Partnership “Central Asia in Motion” with…

Nabeel Rajab free, after more than 600 days of arbitrary detention Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and Deputy Secretary General of FIDH was released from jail today after being detained for more than 600 days.On…

Russian Constitutional court ruled in favor of ADC “Memorial” in its appeal to check the constitutional legality of Article 7 Section 1 of the federal law “On public assemblies, rallies, demonstrations and pickets”. For consecutive years in 2011-2014 Saint Petersburg…

On May 6, 2014, participants of international network “Football against racism in Europe” (FARE) from Eastern and Southern Europe met in Budapest. Representatives of FARE from different countries informed each other about weeks of action “Football Against Racism” that took…

An administrative legal case against Stefania Kulayeva regarding alleged breach of the Code of administrative violations on the rules of public assemblies and “failure to observe legal demands of police officers” on March 2, 2014, during street protests against annexation…

Stephania Kulaeva: “Our group uncovered ethnic profiling by police and discrimination against minority groups in Russia. So Putin’s “foreign agent” law was applied to take us down.” To read Opinion: We fought the law but the law won – labelled…

ADC “Memorial” has obtained a copy of a striking document – a denunciation written in the name of Roma people from the Leningrad Region to the Russian Prosecutor General Yury Chaika. We think there is merit in publicizing this document…

St. Petersburg-based human rights organization ADC Memorial on Friday became the first major Russian nongovernmental organization to be liquidated for refusing to register as a “foreign agent” with the Justice Ministry. With its disbandment of ADC Memorial, the ministry has…

ADC “Memorial” has received official notice from the Russian Ministry of Justice that it had been liquidated. An official statement to this effect was introduced by the ministry into the Register of juridical persons on April 11, 2014. ADC “Memorial”…

On April 23, 2014 human rights defense association “Lawyers for constitutional rights and freedoms” (JURIX) organized round-table discussion “Strategic legal defense: practice and prospects for development” in Moscow. Lawyers, attorneys and representatives of NGOs from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Lipetsk…