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...
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...
On 17 September the seventh International Festival of Queer Culture kicks off in St. Petersburg, Russia. Running until 27 September, the festival is a unique human rights event created to develop open...
Civil Rights Defenders is extremely concerned by yesterday’s violent attack against the Committee Against Torture’s Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Chechnya and demand that the Russian State fully investi...
The final stumbling block to the passing of the draconian “Undesirable Foreign and International Organisations” law was overcome the end of May when President Putin officially signed it into law. Any ...
In January of this year Russian authorities took new steps to further shrink the space that civil society can operate in by proposing a new law on “undesirable foreign and international organisations”...
On 13 April, 2015 three unidentified men sprayed asphyxiating gas into the office of our partner Maximum an LGBT organisation based in Murmansk, Russia injuring two individuals. There has been a histo...
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