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On December 10th, 2011, the first complaint on arrests during mass protests after the elections was considered in the Kuybyshev district court in Saint Petersburg. The judge decided that the activities of the police during the mass demonstrations were legal…

Statement of ADC Memorial on Human Rights Day, December 10th, 2011 Stop political persecutions of civil and human rights activists! On December 10th, Human Rights Days is celebrated all over the world. Every year on this day the United Nations…

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.

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,…

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…