Statements

Civil Rights Defenders and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee condemn the detention by the FSB (Federal Security Service) agents in Moscow of Ivan Pavlov, prominent Russian lawyer and the head of a huma...

On 25 April, Venezuelan human rights defender Orlando Moreno was assaulted and detained by agents of Venezuela’s Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigation Service Corps (CICPC). The assault is one...

Recommendations from CSOs in Myanmar and in Southeast Asia to the Special ASEAN Summit on Myanmar To: Leaders of the Member States of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Your Excel...

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...