{"id":7833,"date":"2013-10-01T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T13:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2013-10-06T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T14:00:35","slug":"international-and-legal-defense-of-ngos-charged-with-violating-the-law-on-ngos-and-performing-the-functions-of-a-foreign-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/international-and-legal-defense-of-ngos-charged-with-violating-the-law-on-ngos-and-performing-the-functions-of-a-foreign-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"International and legal defense of NGOs charged with violating the law on NGOs and \u201cperforming the functions of a foreign agent\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Representatives of ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d participated in a discussion concerning possible strategies to appeal the implementation of the law on \u201cforeign agents\u201d in Russian courts, which was organized on September 24, 2013 in Moscow by the Human rights centre \u201cMemorial\u201d and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC). Leading experts in human rights defense took part in the discussion, including professor Philip Leach and professor Bill Bowring who have vast experience in defending human rights in the European Court for Human Rights, as well as the lawyers of Human rights centre \u201cMemorial\u201d and\u00a0\u00a0 representatives of Russian NGOs. The main topic of the discussion was the appeal to the ECHR made on behalf of 14 human rights organizations and the possibility and reasonability of other organizations joining this appeal. Participants of the meeting have also discussed the prospect of hearings on the law on \u201cforeign agents\u201d in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the use of international\u00a0 mechanisms of the United Nations Organization to appeal against persecution of Russian NGOs. All of these topics are of primary importance to ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d as on October 7, 2013 court hearings are scheduled concerning an administrative case against ADC \u201cMemorial\u201d and its director on violating article 19, section 34 of the Code on administrative violations of the Russian Federation (Leninsky district court, 3 p.m.) and on October 14 another court hearing concerning a civil court case initiated by the procurator\u2019s office, based on the same accusation of being involved in political activities on the ground of preparing a human rights report \u201cRoma people, migrants, activists \u2013 victims of police arbitrariness\u201d (same court, 2 p.m.) .