Statements

In response to Cuba’s election to a fifth term on the Human Rights Council, 85 Cuban and international human rights and freedom-of-expression organisations, in conjunction with independent media outle...

A new Russian draft bill threatens to further restrict the rights of LGBTI+ people living in Russia. In a joint statement, Civil Rights Defenders, RFSL, Amnesty International Sweden, ForumCiv, RFSU, a...

In an open letter on Friday, Civil Rights Defenders and six other Sweden-based organisations express concern about the mVoter 2020 app which has been launched ahead of the 8 November elections in Burm...

On 7 September, a video was circulated on social media depicting the torture of Salman Tepsurkaev, a 19-year-old man from Chechnya. He is still missing. Civil Rights Defenders...

The undersigned organisations call for the Belarusian authorities to drop their criminal defamation lawsuit against editor-in-chief of Nasha Niva, Yahor Martsinovich, and to immediately release him fr...

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...