Da quando è stato etichettato “agente straniero” dalla legge russa nel 2016, le aggressioni, anche da parte di gruppi di nazionalisti coperti dalla polizia, si sono intensificate, fino alla chiusura sia del Centro per i diritti umani di Memorial, sia…
When the famous Soviet figure-skaters Belousova and Protopopov fled the USSR in 1979, asking for political asylum in Switzerland, they were called traitors and renegades. There was even a verse: “So you are just deserters, just vlasovtsy [supporters of Soviet…
Experts and focal points from all UN treaty bodies have gathered for the first time in an attempt to identify and replicate good practices in preventing and responding to reprisals against individuals and groups who engage with the system. When…
From the threshold of the new year 2018, we would not only like to wish you happiness and success while defending human rights and fighting against discrimination, but also to draw the results of the past year. For ADC “Memorial”…
Anti-Discrimination Center “Memorial” made an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) back in 2014 concerning its persecution in Russia. Earlier St. Petersburg city court ordered ADC “Memorial” to register itself in the list of non-governmental organizations “performing…
In an intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case against Russia, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) has called on the Court to explicitly rule that that the rights to freedom of expression and association include…
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