On October 14, political prisoner human rights defender, a member of Viasna’s Board and vice-president of the International Federation for Human Rights FIDH Valiantsin Stefanovich is celebrating his 50th birthday in prison. At the moment 6 human rights defenders from…
Theme: Human Rights Defenders
ADC Memorial congratulates the colleagues on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize – the Belarusian human rights defender, founder and head of the Center “Viasna” Ales Bialiatski (imprisoned for his human rights work in Belarus), the Russian human rights society Memorial…
Human rights activist, journalist, and co-founder of ZMINA human rights center and NGO “Hromadske Radio” Maksym Butkevych has been taken prisoner by the Russian invaders near the captured Zolote and Hirske villages in Luhansk region, Babel and Hromadske Radio report….
Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…
On the liquidation of International Memorial
International Memorial Board Statetment On 28 December 2021 Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, referred to a missing ‘foreign agent’ designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal pretext, though, and the court hearings showed that…
Back to the Past
The next Supreme Court session concerning International Memorial is scheduled for December 14. Much has already been said about the fact that this suit insults the memory of the millions of people crushed by Stalin’s repressions and that this threat…