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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…

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…

On December 23, 2013 Leninsky District Court at last issued the motivated decision of Anna Moroz, the judge who had recognized ADC Memorial as “foreign agent”. In spite of the statements made during the final court session that the overall…

On 11 November 2013, a hearing in the civil case brought by Admiralteysky District Prosecutor’s Office against the Anti-Discrimination Centre ‘Memorial’ (ADC ‘Memorial’) took place in the Leninsky District Court of St Petersburg. The Prosecutor’s Office initiated a civil suit…