Theme: stateless people

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…

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…

To the International Migrants Day ADC Memorial has prepared special issue of human rights bulletin dedicated to the rights of migrants and stateless people and #CrossborderChildhood campaign. Content: Discrimination due to Family Circumstances Court overrules Russian consumer watchdog’s decision on…

To the International Migrants Day the issue topic is rights of migrants and stateless people. Discrimination due to Family Circumstances Court overrules Russian consumer watchdog’s decision on undesirability of a HIV-positive person’s stay Birth and death in Russian detention centres…

On 31 August 2019, after a long-drawn out process, the final version of the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published. 31,121,004 residents of Assam were included in the NRC and therefore recognised as citizens, whereas 1,906,657 residents –…