The judicial panel of the Saint Petersburg city court, composed of presiding judge Gavrilova and judges Salnikova and Marina, ruled to decline ADC “Memorial’s” appeal against the earlier decision of Leninsky district court, which had required ADC “Memorial” to get…
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On March 26, 2014 Saint Petersburg ombudsman A.Shishlov presented annual human rights report for 2013 to the deputies of the Saint Petersburg legislative assembly. Among other things report featured materials which were prepared by the city’s human rights organizations, including…
The right to education is one of the most important social and cultural human rights, while education itself is a necessary condition for children’s socialization. As a participant of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, which protects all…

“Police abuse – a serious threat to the rule of law”, Nils Muižnieks, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, has stated recently. Among other things Muižnieks pointed out the responsibility of the states and of all the…
Deportation instead of investigation: courts ruled to deport victims of human trafficking
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…

Five years ago, in 2009, lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were murdered in Moscow by neo-Nazis. January 19 – they day of their murder – became the day of memory, antifascist actions, public assemblies against all forms of…