Theme: political prisoners

Ahead of the High Representative’s upcoming visit to Moscow, Amnesty International is writing to urge the EU to take robust and public action to support those in Russia who courageously defend human rights in the face of spiralling levels of…

9th of November is the day against fascism, racism and anti-semitism – ADC Memorial dedicates this publication to the actual problem of solidarity with the anti-fascists facing repressions, arrests, torture. The video of the performance of solidarity tells in different…

2.11.2016 (Paris-Geneva) Joint press-release by FIDH, its member organisation Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) Ildar Ildusovich Dadin, civic activist whom Amnesty International declared as prisoner of conscience, was transferred to the Penal Colony No. 7 in…

FIDH and its member organisation ADC Memorial Press release Paris, 11 December 2015 FIDH and its member organisation “Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial” strongly condemn the sentence of Russian human rights activist Ildar Dadin to three years in closed detention facility for merely…

FIDH and its member organization ADC Memorial  present Joint Press Release   The sentencing on 25 August of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov and civic and antifascist activist Alexander Kolchenko to respectively 20 and 10 years of severe regime detention is…

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders welcomes the release of Mr. Nabeel Rajab but recalls that it is a positive but insufficient step since the Royal Pardon only concerns one of the three set of criminal charges…