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Mr. Adilur Rahman Khan, globally known to have critiqued the incumbent government of Bangladesh against its human rights abuses, has been released from prison today, October 11, 2013, after 62 days of prolonged arbitrary detention.

In March 2013 as part of a delegation of human rights defenders from various countries I visited Azerbaijan to take part in a human rights mission organized by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH). FIDH is an international movement…

Court hearings in Leninsky district court of Saint Petersburg in a case initiated by the procurator’s office against ADC “Memorial” which were scheduled for October 14, 2013 were postponed due to absence of the third party – representative of the…

In April 2013 I participated in an informational trip to Sweden as part of exchange devoted to protection of women and children from family violence. This trip was organized by INGO Crisis centre for women (Saint Petersburg) and National Association…

Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) currently has a practice of calling foreign citizens from the countries of Central Asia (labor migrants) to answer for the lack of obligatory medical insurance policy. Crossing the border to the Russian Federation without such…

Representatives of more than 70 NGOs from the European Union and Russia participated in a general assembly of Civic Forum in Hague on October 5-7, 2013. Following discussions at the forum participants adopted strategic aims for the next two years,…

On October 7, 2013 Leninsky district court of Saint Petersburg considered the appeal by the procurator’s office of Admiralty district regarding the resolution made by the Justice of Peace of 8th district Olga Glushanok, who had ruled in May 2013…

On July 27, 2013 international community witnessed how a Russian citizen Magomed Rasulov together with his relatives and friends tried to prevent Moscow police officers from doing their job on Matveyevsky open air market when trying to arrest a suspected…

At the end of May 2013 International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) held its congress in Istanbul. Once every three years people working for the member organizations of FIDH have a chance to meet each other face to face and…

Representatives of ADC “Memorial” took part in the 13th session of OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, which took place in Warsaw. During the plenary session on September 27, which was devoted to the problem of implementation of…