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17 September 2021 marks one year since the beginning of the crackdown on Viasna, leading Belarus human rights NGOs. Jointly with Viasna, we calls for a global rally under the hashtag #FREEVIASNA to stand in solidarity for our imprisoned colleagues…

Native of Kyrgyzstan Andrei B. has been held in a foreign national detention center twice – his is one of the many cases of stateless people being repeatedly deemed “violators of migration laws” and deprived of liberty for extended periods, even…

ADC Memorial supports demands to end political repressions in Crimea, release deputy chairman of the Mejlis Nariman Dzhelyal and other Crimean Tatar activists from prison without delay, and investigate evidence of torture that Dzhelyal’s attorney referred to. Dzhelyal and the…

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination assessed Uzbekistan’s implementation of the priority recommendations given in December, 2019 during the last review of the state report on compliance with the Convention. The Committee found unsatisfactory the response of…

The Independent Barents Observer, a media resource covering problems of the Russian-Norwegian border territories, was blocked by Roskomnadzor in 2019. ADC Memorial supported the appeal against the illegal restriction of freedom of speech at the national level, and after all…

I remember August 2011 as the month my friend and colleague Ales Bialiatski, a human rights defender and director of the Belarussian Viasna Human Rights Centre, was arrested. Bialiatski was immediately recognized as a political prisoner being prosecuted for this human…

The BBC has released a major report about the problem of job bans and the women fighting for the cancellation of the list of banned professions. Among the heroes of the campaign #AllJobs4AllWomen are Oksana Shevalye and Svetlana Medvedeva The…

Below is a summary of the Shor activist Yana Tannagasheva’s video project “Coal Kills Us” (ADC Memorial supported its distribution). The Shor are a small indigenous people living in southern Kemerovo Oblast and in neighboring districts of the Republic of Khakassia, the…

The tenth and final story in Yana Tannagasheva’s project “Coal is killing us” is about what should replace the barbaric coal mining in the Kuzbass region. “My tenth and final story about coal titled “A Different Life…” A different life;…

The ninth story from the series “Coal is killing us” by Yana Tannagasheva about the danger of the coal industry for the climate. Today the coal industry is the dirtiest way of producing energy and presents a major threat to…