On 16 January, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Civil Rights Defenders long-term partner Committee against Torture (CAT) to the register of “foreign agents”. CAT is widely respected f...
The Russian Ministry of Justice entered Civil Rights Defenders’ long-term partner ’Rakurs’ into the register of ’foreign agents’ on 15 December this year. Rakurs is the first LGBT organisation t...
The office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny, Chechnya, was destroyed by an arson attack on 13 December 2014. The following day Chechen police raided the apartment of JMG employees confiscatin...
Recently state-controlled Russian channel, NTV featured a piece about Civil Rights Defenders’ long term partner Memorial suggesting that the organisation was supporting terrorists and radical gr...
QueerFest, one of the biggest LGBTQ-events in Russia and supported by Civil Rights Defenders, opened on 18 September in St. Petersburg. Since the start the festival has been plagued by threats, violen...
Five years ago Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights defender working in Chechnya was brutally murdered for her human rights work. Although the Russian authorities have repeatedly guaranteed to...
After the adoption of state laws banning propaganda of homosexuality amongst minors LGBT Defenders working in state educational institutions have been increasingly subjected to dismissal in Russia bec...
On 23 May 2014 the Zamoskvoretskiy District Court rejected an appeal by Memorial Human Rights Center, a leading Russian human rights NGO against the prosecutor’s order requiring it to register as a ”f...
17 May, the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), is celebrated all over the world. On this important day Civil Rights Defenders is taking action by participating in a demonst...
In 2013 Vladimir Putin signed a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors” in Russia. In recent events these “propaganda laws” have been used to curb freedom of expression ...
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