On July 16, 2013 Saint Petersburg city court declined to consider procurator’s protests concerning the case of ADC “Memorial”. The court cited procedural rules for appeal and stated that the procurator’s office has made errors in the documents and returned…
Courts of two instances have refused to accept claims of procurator’s office against human rights defenders. Leninsky district court has left intact the decision of the Justice of Peace, which earlier refused to confirm the procurator’s claims concerning ADC “Memorial”…
The judge has ruled that decision No.35-78-2013 on administrative violation dated April 30, 2013 contains considerable deficiencies, which cannot be corrected in the course of the consideration of the case. This decision confirms the position of the private charity association…
Brussels, 19 May 2013 On 17 May 2013, the European Union and the Russian Federation held their seventeenth round of human rights consultations in Brussels, allowing the EU to raise its growing concerns on the developments affecting human rights in…
Checks of non-commercial organizations in Russia, which have started in late March this year and took more than a month, have consumed a lot of time and energy of the human rights defenders, including the staff of ADC “Memorial”. The…
GENEVA (14 May 2013) – Three United Nations independent human rights experts today expressed serious concern at the “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” brought about by the current implementation in the Russian Federation of the law on ‘non-commercial organizations’ (NCOs),…
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