31.07.2025
Theme: Torture
25.06.2021
Torture and inhumane treatment of children deprived of liberty should be stopped On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 26th of June, ADC Memorial calls for attention to the specific problem of inhumane treatment and cruelty against children in closed institutions. Some practices that are considered acceptable in treating...
03.09.2020
The UN condemned torture and massive human rights violations in Belarus On September 1, 2020, UN human rights experts, including Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Special Rapporteur on...
19.05.2020
The Korday Pogrom: The Dungan People of Kazakhstan Seek Justice On February 7, 2020, the most extensive ethnic conflict seen in Kazakhstan in recent years occurred when hundreds of pogromists attacked the Dungan villages of Masanchi, Sortobe, Bular Batyr, and Aukhatty. Against the backdrop of the Kazakh people’s customary belief...
19.11.2019
Parallel follow-up information by ADC Memorial and former members of Public Oversight Commissions to UN Committee against Torture In August 2018 UN Committee against Torture adopted Concluding observations after considering the periodic report of the Russian Federation on observation of Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. In the observations, the Committee requested...
26.06.2019