Statements

The recent, ongoing and unwarranted detention of five members of the Venezuelan NGO ‘Azul Positivo’ is one more event in a series of threats, harassment, attacks, restrictions, reprisals and criminal ...

The European Burma Network (EBN) unequivocally condemns the military coup in Burma, and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi, government ministers, regional chief mini...

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...