Statements

In response to the uninterrupted acts of intimidation and violence committed in the last two months by Cuban authorities against members of the dissident organisation Unión Patriótica de Cuba (UNPACU)...

Lift Internet Ban; Quash Cases Against Students Protesting Shutdown (Bangkok) – The Myanmar authorities should immediately drop the charge against the free-speech activist and poet Maung Saungkha, sev...

In a joint letter, 16 human rights organisations call on the United Nations Human Rights Council to convene a special session to address the human rights violations committed in the leadup, during and...

The member organisations of Solidarity Network for Human Rights Defenders have written a letter to the United Nations (UN) special mandate holders, underlining the recent increase in attacks on LGBTI+...

On 9 August, the Uzbekistani journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was arrested in Bishkek by officials of the State Committee for State Security of Kyrgyzstan. Civil Rights Defenders, together with several...

Civil Rights Defenders calls upon Serbia’s authorities to refrain from pressuring civil society organisations and individuals following reports that they are being unfairly targeted and investigated b...

Civil Rights Defenders mourns the passing of prominent human rights defender and journalist Azimjon Askarov and expresses its sincere condolences to his family at this difficult time.   At 8...

Today, on the fourth anniversary of the killing of prominent political commentator and human rights defender Kem Ley, 30 undersigned organisations, call on the Cambodian authorities to create an indep...

Civil Rights Defenders condemns the excessive use of police force during Tuesday evening’s demonstrations in Belgrade, and calls upon Serbia’s authorities to investigate all breaches of its own ...

On Friday, 3 July, a court in Turkey sentenced four human rights activists to between two and six years in prison on terrorism charges. In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders and several human r...