On December 6th, 2011, during mass protests in St Petersburg Filipp Kostenko, public activist and employee of the human rights organisation Anti-discrimination centre Memorial, was arrested and put into detention centre at Zakharyevskaya str., 6, and embarked on hunger strike.
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ADC “Memorial,” SRC “Memorial,” International Society “Memorial” held a press-conference “The Arkhangelsk Affair: On the Eve of the Verdict.” The main topic of the conference was the criminal proceedings against the authors, who created the database for a book in memory…
On 10th of December, a seminar on the refugees’ rights will take place in the office of the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial at 5 p.m. The address of the office is St Petersburg, 7th Krasnoarmeyskaya str., 25/14, office 410.
A seminar dedicated to the problems of the Roma families took place in Pskov on November 24th and 25th, 2011. Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” has been advocating for the rights of the Roma in the Northwestern region of Russia for many years,…
Difficulties of resettlement in Tyumen
ADC “Memorial” continues to monitor the difficult situation with the resettlement of residents, living in a Roma settlement in Tyumen, provides all the possible support to the Roma people as well as to the representatives of the construction firm, voluntarily…
On November, 25 a court in Minsk delivered a verdict for Ales Bialiatski, vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the head of the Human Rights Centre “Viasna.” The court found Bialiatski guilty and sentenced him for 4,5…
On 16th November 2011 the deputies of the Legislative Assembly passed a bill prescribing administrative liability for public activities “promoting homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism among minors”. Yesterday ADC Memorial sent a letter to the Legislative Assembly warning that this law…
Press Release Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Tajikistan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law Migrant workers must not be held hostage to the Russian-Tajik political crisis Paris, St Petersburg, Dushanbe, 23…
On November 13, a picket in memory of the murdered anti-fascist Timur Kacharava took place near the store “Bukvoed” on the Vosstaniya Square. His friends and colleagues, those who still remember the tragedy that took place six years ago, came…
Resettlement in Tyumen: construction started
The Anti-discrimination centre Memorial has successfully cooperated with the constructing company „Partner-Invest“ and signed an ageement with the firm on free new houses for Roma families in Tyumen. The construction works were postponed due to various reasons: lack of final…