On September 15, 2017, the Samara District Court completed its review of the case of Svetlana Medvedeva v. the Samara River Passenger Enterprise. The court found that the internationally-recognized ban on discrimination against women means that women cannot be denied…
St. Petersburg city court considered legal appeal lodged by lawyer Olga Tseitlina, who was supported by ADC “Memorial”. The court reviewed an earlier court ruling concerning a native of Ukraine, who had been ordered to be expelled from Russia. City…
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…
In July 2017 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated legal appeals concerning the unlawful long-term detention of stateless persons in inhuman conditions, which had been filed by lawyers Olga Tseitlina in defense of O.M. Mayinov and by…
On July 24th 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation approved the appeal lodged by Svetlana Medvedeva and called for a retrial in the case of the refusal from the Samara river passenger company to hire the woman as…
On June 22, 2017, Kirovsky district court of St. Petersburg ruled to release Noe Mskhiladze, a stateless person, after more than 17 months of detention in the center for temporary detention of foreign nationals for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region….
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