February 27, 2024 We, 32 Russian and international human rights organizations, condemn Moscow’s Golovinsky District Court’s sentencing today of Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Human Rights Defense Center Memorial, to 2 years and 6 months in prison on politically motivated charges…
We, members of the International Memorial Association, consider it vital to draw attention to the new instances of persecution of our colleagues that have occurred in the recent weeks. Human rights activist and former member of the Memorial Human Rights…
On 2 February 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued landmark decisions in two cases against Russia initiated by Ukraine on 16 January 2017 regarding terrorism financing and racial discrimination, and on 26 February 2022 regarding genocide allegations. While…
On 17 November 2023, Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit with the State’s Supreme Court, demanding the recognition of the “international public LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization”. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organizations,…
After a wave of antisemitic violence surged across the North Caucasus, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations, the Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial (ADC Memorial), the Human Rights Defence Centre Memorial and Citizens’ Watch, urge the Russian…
24 February marks one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To date, FIDH member organisations in Ukraine, the Center for Civil Liberties, and the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, have helped to document close to 30,000 alleged international crimes….
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