Statements

Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the verdict of the High Court in Novi Pazar, Serbia to adopt a lawsuit by 11 activists and our partner “Impuls” who were discriminated by a restaurant owner due to thei...

Magomed Gadaev, a Chechen asylum seeker in France and key witness in a high-profile torture investigation against Chechnya’s authorities, was abducted on 11 April by Chechen police afte...

In the ten years since the Syrian government’s first assaults on pro-democracy protesters, Syrians have suffered atrocities at the hands of government officials, non-state actors, and foreign militari...

In recent weeks, Cuban authorities have used aggressive tactics to crack down on activists, artists and critical voices. Civil Rights Defenders and six other organisations now call on the internationa...

Front Line Defenders, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Progressive Voice, Civil Rights Defenders, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (OMCT-FIDH) and...

On 15 March 2021, journalist Elena Milashina from the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an investigation into a mass execution in Chechnya in 2017. Following the publicatio...

Civil Rights Defenders demands members of Serbia’s ruling party refrain from threatening civil society organisations and calls upon the Public Prosecutor to investigate recent threats against our part...

On 8 March, an additional three protesters were killed in Myitkyina and Pyapon when the Burmese military opened fire on peaceful demonstrations. Approximately 90 protesters were arbitrarily detained, ...

We, ILGA-Europe and the undersigned human rights organisations, call on the President and government of Uzbekistan, member of the UN Human Rights Council, to decriminalise same-sex conduct between men...

In a letter to Russia’s Prosecutor General, Igor Krasnov, Civil Rights Defenders and six human rights organisations express concern over the unfounded criminal prosecution of Yulia Tsvetkova, a ...