On October 14, 2015 Umarali Nazarov, a 5-month old infant, died in St. Petersburg under unclear circumstances after having been separated from his mother for just several hours. His mother, a citizen of Tajikistan, had been detained for supposed violation of migration regime. Administrative Code of the Russian Federation does not allow imprisonment of minors, mothers of children under 14 years of age and pregnant women, but such practice is nevertheless widespread for women and children, who are foreign nationals, and police regularly applies to labor migrants the stringent measures of detention, deprivation of liberty and separation of children from mothers. This established practice has to be recognized as illegal and inappropriate, as it violates both Russian and international laws and it brings with it high risks for children. The tragic death of Umarali Nazarov was a result of this practice.
The question of what protection a child needs is often the subject of heated debate. Society is divided into those who firmly support parents who know “what is best for the child” and those who almost always support government interference…
On October 14, 2015, six-month-old Umarali Nazarov died in Saint Petersburg after he was forcibly taken from his mother at a police precinct while she was being investigated for violating migration rules. On October 13, Umarali’s mother, Zarina Yunusova, was…
The European Court of Human Rights has received a complaint from Zarina Yunosova and Rustam Nazarov, the parents of five-month-old Umarali Nazarov, who died in October 2015. This complaint was submitted with the support of ADC Memorial attorneys. For the…
St. Petersburg city court has upheld an earlier court decision and refused to open a criminal investigation into the death of a 5-month-old Tajik baby Umarali Nazarov, who had died in a hospital where he had been sent from a…
As it became known, on October 20, 2016 decision was adopted to dismiss the criminal case initiated last year following the death of 5-month old Umarali Nazarov. Investigators concluded that the “criminal event” in this case was “missing”. From the…
Dear Mrs. Agapitova, The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), non-governmental international organization with consultative status at the United Nations Organization and the Council of Europe, which has 178 member organizations worldwide, and its affiliates ADC “Memorial” and “Bir Duino…
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