Migrants who cannot be expelled during the pandemic must be released Many countries are starting to release people in custody at risk of contracting Covid-19. In Russia, attorneys and human rights defenders are calling for pretrial detention facilities and prisons…
Theme: detention centre
The practice of the Russian courts in legal cases regarding the placement of stateless persons into temporary detention centres for foreign nationals remains contradictory. It would seem that the decision of the Constitutional Court in the case of Noe Mskhiladze,…
On December 23, 2019, Vsevolozhsk city court (Leningrad Region), after having examined the application of lawyer Yuri Serov, ruled to release two stateless persons who had been held in a centre for temporary detention of foreign nationals for a long…
When mistakes with the personal information of foreign nationals are made in court documents expulsion may become impossible and detention can become indefinite.
The Third court of cassation of general jurisdiction (St.Petersburg) has ruled that the earlier decisions of the Kuybyshevsky district court and the St. Petersburg city court, as well as the decision of the deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg city…
Birth and death in Russian detention centres
Four beds are squeezed into a tiny room with dirty grey walls. There is hardly any space in the room. There’s also a shower and a toilet here, separated by a curtain. Sunlight illuminates the room through the bars. This…