Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction of Zhalaudi Geriev, a reporter with the Russian news site Caucasian Knot, for three years imprisonment for possession of narcotics. According to his lawy...
The last several weeks have seen a marked deterioration in the human rights situation in Russia, including the first criminal case brought under the widely-criticised “foreign agents” law, the passage...
Since Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin in May 2012 the human rights situation in Russia has worsened significantly. The Kremlin’s focus has been on curtailing freedom of expression of human righ...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the violent attacks on our partner, The Joint Mobile Group, and six journalists from Sweden, Norway and Russia. At the time of one of the attacks six journalis...
Today, we are launching Roman Sacharov as a new participant in Natalia Project. Roman Sacharov works at Glasnost Defence Foundation in Russia, which – among other things – documents human rights viola...
Prominent Russian LGBT activist Sergey Alexseenko and long-term partner of Civil Rights Defenders was found guilty under the archaic “propaganda of homosexuality” law, which, was introduced in 2013. T...
President Putin has signed a law that will allow the Constitutional Court of Russia to deem as unenforceable decisions from the International Courts including the European Court of Human Rights. “This...
Civil Rights Defenders is gravely concerned regarding the security infringements of Magomed Mutsolgov, a prominent human rights defender and leader of MASHR, an Ingush human rights organisation locate...
On 17 September, the seventh International Queerfest kicked off in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ten day long festival gathered more than 2 500 spectators, who visited the events or watched the festival...
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