Statements

The ongoing brutal crackdown against civilian protesters across Russia – in connection to the wrongful arrest and sentencing of prominent government critic Alexey Navalny – is yet another grave exampl...

In the past two weeks, Russia has been rocked by a series of mass protests, with more than approximately 550,000 people in total demonstrating across the country. Sparked by the arrest and subsequent ...

The undersigned groups today denounced an apparent coup in Myanmar, and associated violence, which has suspended civilian government and effectively returned full power to the military.  On 1 Feb...

On 18 January, the Belarusian police detained Leanid Sudalenka, human rights activist and head of the Homiel branch of Human Rights Centre Viasna, and his ...

On 21 January, the European Parliament will decide on a resolution on sanctions against people responsible for the ongoing attack on the Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny. Alexey Navalny ri...

Late yesterday evening, 13 January, Kenyan human rights defender Anastacia Nambo sent out a distress signal indicating she was in danger. Civil Rights Defenders received the alarm through our global s...

Today the Russian State Duma passed most of the amendments submitted to its 2012 ‘foreign agents’ legislation, including changes to the bill ‘On taking additional measures to counter threats to nation...

Among the hundreds of arrests made during recent anti-government protest in Albania a number of independent journalists have been detained, adding to the growing deterioration of media freedoms in the...

Laos: After eight years, civil society worldwide demands the government establish and reveal Sombath’s fate and whereabouts 15 December 2020: On the eighth anniversary of the enforced disappearance of...

The Swedish government decided on 26 November that the Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, will be closed by the end of next year. Civil society organisations from both Sweden and Cambodia fear...