February 12th, 2010
Officials
detained for 15 hours three human rights activists who were attempting to compile a list of missing persons. Aleksandr Cherkasov of the Moscow-based Memorial Human Rights Center said neither the reason for their detention nor their release were explained. Civil liberties groups including Human Rights Watch have
called for an investigation into the detentions.
October 7th, 2009
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov has won a defamation case against human rights group Memorial and its head, Oleg Orlov. But the trial has given the organisation a chance to address the injustices in the region. Tanya Lokshina reports
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August 28th, 2009
The murder of Natalia Estimerova was a stark reminder of the dangers human rights workers in Chechnya face when trying to draw attention to the region, writes Memorial’s Dokka Itslaev
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August 19th, 2009
Akhmed Gisayev, a Memorial employee who had been working with Natalia Estemirova to investigate a sensitive human rights case in the days before her murder in July has experienced a series of menacing events in the past days and weeks. Gisayev, who lives in the Chechen capital, Gronzy, has reported being stopped by armed men in the street, having his flat searched and being under constant surveillance by security services. Read more here
July 15th, 2009
Natalia Estemirova, a researcher for Russian group memorial, has been found dead in Ingushetia.
Read more
here
May 14th, 2009
A St Petersburg court has confirmed that the police raid on Gulag archive Memorial was illegal
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March 3rd, 2009
My history book is the latest victim of the Kremlin’s attempts to rehabilitate the Soviet Union, says Orlando Figes
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December 8th, 2008
Memorial’s historical archive must be restored immediately. An open letter from Orlando Figes and some of the world’s leading academics
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