On February 13, 2014, at a press conference in Moscow annual report “Right-wing radicals spread their shoulders. Xenophobia and radical nationalism and counteraction against them in Russia in 2013” was presented by information and analytical center “Sova”. Head of “Sova”…
The Journal: AT THE TIME of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi it is important to remember the human rights abuse of minorities and their defenders in Russia. This is a question for gay people but also for Roma, immigrant…
As Winter Olympics started in Sochi, several billion people were watching broadcasts, as we were told. Critical voices were supposed to hush at the sight of this greatness – winners shouldn’t be judged, a lot was built (have respect for…
ADC “Memorial” in cooperation with attorneys Y.Serov and O.Tseytlina is constantly working to protect the rights of prisoners detained at the Saint Petersburg Aliens Detention Centre. This detention center is not different from any prison and people held there (sometimes…
ADC “Memorial” welcomes Concluding observations and recommendations on the fourth and fifth reports of the Russian Federation to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (published on February 5, 2014). Besides taking into account the official state reports,…
On January 17, 2014 ADC “Memorial” made an appeal against earlier ruling of Leninsky district court of Saint Petersburg dated December 12, 2013. This court ruling was in favour of the procurator’s appeal in the interests of an undefined group…
This story started on November 13, 2012, the seventh anniversary of the murder of antifascist Timur Kacharava by neo-Nazis in Saint Petersburg. The scene of the murder in front of a bookstore on Vosstaniya square each year becomes a meeting…
Veronica M., a citizen of Cameroun, was to be released on October 4, 2013 after three years she had spent in the Center for detention of foreign nationals in Saint Petersburg, but she ended up in the same detention center…
Paris, Saint-Petersburg — Over the last two years the Russian authorities have waged the largest offensive against freedom since the end of the Soviet Union, according to a report published today by FIDH and its member organisation ADC Memorial. The…
People in a neighboring country, Ukraine, stood in pickets even if it was freezing cold, lived on city squares and struggled against intolerable laws, trying to abolish them (and they did succeed in some cases!). But Russia has “its own…
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