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Russia: “Foreign Agents” Law Hits Hundreds of NGOs: Updated December 26, 2013
In early March 2013 the Russian government launched an unprecedented, nationwide campaign of inspections of thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to identify advocacy groups the government deems “foreign agents” and force them to register as such. The list below tracks the legal consequences of the law on dozens of NGOs.
Since the beginning of the “foreign agents” campaign, various
prosecutors’ offices and the Ministry of Justice filed nine
administrative cases against NGOs and an additional five administrative
cases against NGO leaders for failure to register under the “foreign
agents” law. Prosecutors lost nine of these fourteen cases in courts.
These were cases filed against the Perm Regional Human Rights Center,
the GRANI Center for Civic Analysis and Independent Research, the Perm
Civic Chamber, the Side by Side LGBT Film Festival and its director,
Coming Out (an LGBT group) and its director, and the Memorial
Anti-Discrimination Center and its director. The prosecutors won
administrative cases against the Kostroma Center for Support of Public
Initiatives and the center’s director.The Ministry of Justice filed administrative cases against the Golos Association, an election monitoring group, and its director and against Regional Golos, and won all three cases in courts. Additionally, the prosecutors brought civil law suits against four NGOs: Women of Don in Novocherkassk, the Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies in Saratov, LGBT organization "Coming out" and Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center in Saint-Petersburg. Notably, the suits against the Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center and LGBT organization "Coming out" were nearly identical to the administrative cases against groups that the prosecutors had lost. Two of these organizations, Memorial Anti-Discrimination Center and Center for Social Policy and Gender Studies lost the civil law suits in district courts and are presently appeal those rulings.
The Ministry of Justice ordered the two NGOs against which it had filed
administrative cases (both Golos groups) to suspend their activities
for several months. Also, at least three groups (the Golos Association,
the Kostroma Center for Support of Public Initiatives, and the Side by
Side LGBT Film Festival) initiated proceedings on their own to wind up
operations in order to avoid further repressive legal action.
The prosecutors also filed at least 12 administrative cases against
NGOs for refusing to provide documents during the inspection campaign
and lost two of them (against the Rainbow Foundation in Moscow and the
Foundation for Development of Modern Civil Society Institutions in
Lipetsk).
At least 11 NGOs filed lawsuits against prosecutors’ notices ordering
the groups to register under the “foreign agents” law, which they had
received in the wake of the inspection campaign. By late November, at
least three groups won their cases (Yekaterinburg’s Information and
Human Rights Center, Perm’s GRANI Center for Civic Analysis and
Independent Research, and the Perm Civil Chamber).
Human Rights Watch is also aware of at least three NGOs in different
regions of Russia that succeeded in getting the prosecutors’ warnings
annulled in courts (MASHR in Ingushetia, the Movement for Fair Elections
in Kurgan, and Golos in Siberia). At least two more warnings (against
Assistance to Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Moscow region and the Phoenix
Foundation in Vladivostok, respectively) were revoked by the
prosecutor’s offices themselves.
Thirteen leading rights groups jointly filed a complaint with the
European Court of Human Rights challenging the “foreign agents” law. The
application is currently under review. In August Russia’s ombudsman,
Vladimir Lukin, filed an appeal with the country’s Constitutional Court
on behalf of four organizations challenging warnings from the
prosecutor’s offices to register and fines groups had incurred for
failing to register. Two other groups filed separate petitions with the
Constitutional Court challenging the “foreign agents” measure’s
compliance with the Russian constitution.
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