Memorial Human Rights Centre

Memorial Human Rights Centre was one of the oldest Russian human rights organizations, founded in Moscow in 1993. Memorial received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022 for its human rights work, along with two other human rights organizations. Russian authorities forcibly liquidated the group in 2022.

Memorial was working on various projects in the field of human rights, in particular, litigation at the European Court of Human Rights; monitoring violations in the North Caucasus and Central Asia, and breaches of criminal procedure; and providing protection for the victims of political persecution, legal assistance for migrants, and protection for minorities.

Together with OVD-Info, they launched a campaign to file thousands of complaints against the Russian Federation for violating the right to peaceful assembly.

Memorial. Human Rights Defense Center continues the work in its place.

1612 applications available in SOP database. All of the applications are lodged against Russia.

Applications by status
Final judgment 1349
Communicated without observations 139
Judgement or decision 70
Inadmissible 19
Application awaiting first judicial decision 19
Communicated with observations 13
Application pending possible transfer to Grand Chamber 2
Struck out 1
Application Number Name State Date lodged Representative Current state
49205/21
Mikhonin v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49205/21 Mikhonin Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49201/21
Klochkova v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49201/21 Klochkova Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49190/21
Kapustin v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49190/21 Kapustin Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49175/21
Savelyeva v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49175/21 Savelyeva Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Communicated without observations
49108/21
Lushina v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49108/21 Lushina Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49096/21
Zakharov v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49096/21 Zakharov Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49092/21
Goncharova v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49092/21 Goncharova Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49082/21
Tsepin v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49082/21 Tsepin Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
49077/21
Varegina v. 🇷🇺
28/09/2021 		49077/21 Varegina Russia 28/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48221/21
Madayev v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48221/21 Madayev Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Judgement or decision
48219/21
Terogonyants v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48219/21 Terogonyants Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Judgement or decision
48215/21
Babutskaya v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48215/21 Babutskaya Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48209/21
Potanin v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48209/21 Potanin Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48206/21
Akhmanova v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48206/21 Akhmanova Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48204/21
Sayeda v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48204/21 Sayeda Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Communicated without observations
48197/21
Zhidilev v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48197/21 Zhidilev Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48195/21
Osin v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48195/21 Osin Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48172/21
Stepanchikov v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48172/21 Stepanchikov Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48158/21
Sazonova v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48158/21 Sazonova Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48155/21
Savchenkov v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48155/21 Savchenkov Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
48152/21
Afanasyev v. 🇷🇺
24/09/2021 		48152/21 Afanasyev Russia 24/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
51910/21
Ovechkin v. 🇷🇺
23/09/2021 		51910/21 Ovechkin Russia 23/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Final judgment
51891/21
Ostrovskaya v. 🇷🇺
23/09/2021 		51891/21 Ostrovskaya Russia 23/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Communicated without observations
51886/21
Menshikova v. 🇷🇺
23/09/2021 		51886/21 Menshikova Russia 23/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Communicated without observations
51883/21
Ozerova v. 🇷🇺
23/09/2021 		51883/21 Ozerova Russia 23/09/2021 Memorial Human Rights Centre Communicated without observations