According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, there are currently an estimated 12 million stateless people in the world. The number of such people in Russia is estimated to be about 178,000. The collapse of the Soviet Union has led to an increase in the number of stateless persons, especially among those who belonged to national minorities: there were people that the emerging post-Soviet governments considered to be belonging to citizenship of other countries, even if they had lived on certain territories for many years. A large number of stateless persons are those of Roma origin.
The state must protect everyone, including persons without citizenship, against violations of human rights. Detention of stateless persons in detention centers for foreign nationals with the aim of further deportation from the country for violating the rules of stay in Russian Federation can not be considered legitimate as deportation is not feasible in such cases.
Stateless person complains of extended imprisonment for the purpose of “expulsion” from the RF, even though it is obviously impossible to deport a stateless person. The RF Constitutional Court will consider the case of Noé Mskhiladze at 10:00 a.m. on…
On December 12, 2016 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has notified the authorities of the Russian Federation about the legal complaint “Mskhiladze v. Russia”, which had been filed to the court by ADC “Memorial” together with lawyer Olga…
Deputy Chairman of the St. Petersburg city court Mikhail Pavlyuchenko has overruled an earlier decision by a district court, which had ordered detention of stateless persons S., V. and Zh. at the center for temporary detention of foreign nationals with…
European Court for Human Rights has communicated the legal appeal made by ADC “Memorial” and lawyer Olga Tseytlina in defense of a stateless person, native of Georgia, N.G. Mskhiladze, who is being held in the centre for temporary detention of…
Vepkhviya Sordia died 8th of October in a hospital in Saint Petersburg, one day after his release from detention centre for foreigners (SUVSIG), where he was kept for a second time for almost a year. The lawyer of Mr. Sordia…
Vephviya Sordia, a stateless person and native of Georgia, have been imprisoned in the detention center for foreign nationals in Krasnoye Selo (Leningrad region) for more than 10 months awaiting deportation from Russia for breach of immigration regulations (he had…
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