Theme: detention centre

On International Migrants Day, 18 December, it is important to highlight the problems which foreigners faced in Russia during the pandemic in 2020. They include not only loss of income and difficulties with a return to the homeland, but also…

The coronovirus pandemic worsened the situation of many vulnerable groups, but it hit migrant workers especially hard. Thousands lost their jobs and housing were unable to return home and were forced to survive in tent camps, and some were imprisoned indefinitely in deportation centers (FNDC).

Deficiencies in the Russian legislation create conditions for systemic discrimination against foreigners and stateless persons, as the courts rule on their expulsion from the country even in cases where such expulsion is not possible, which in turn leads to long…

At the end of June 2020, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” in cooperation with lawyer Olga Tseytlina managed to secure the release of two more stateless persons (natives of Kyrgyzstan) from temporary detention centre for foreign nationals. Both of these stateless persons…

In June 2020, Anti-Discrimination Centre “Memorial” secured release from temporary detention centre for foreign nationals of two natives of Ukraine, who for various reasons could not be expelled from the Russian Federation. Unfortunately, people like them continue to be deprived…

Mr. O., a native of Kyrgyzstan and a stateless person, who had been living in Russia for more than 15 years, has been kept in a temporary detention centre for foreign nationals for 8 months, since September 2019. The court…