On 23 March Civil Rights Defenders, together with several other civil society groups, sent a joint letter to the Royal Government of Cambodia and called for immediate investigation into the disappeara...
The Cambodian government announced a ban on demonstrations after a violent crackdown on striking garment factory workers. On 2 and 3 January, security forces shot dead at least four workers and injure...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the death threats directed towards Aida Corovic, a leading human rights defender in Sandzak, Serbia, and requests a quick and firm response from the authoritie...
On 17 October, just a week after the presidential election, the sale of several daily newspapers including the newspaper Azadliq was banned in metro stations in Baku. Azadliq is one of few remaining o...
On 22 November, the Cambodian Supreme Court is hearing the final appeal of human rights defender Yorm Bopha. Civil Rights Defenders believes she is imprisoned for her human rights activism. For more t...
Rashad Ramazanov, Azerbaijani blogger who criticised the authorities on Facebook and YouTube, was sentenced to nine years in prison on trumped-up drug charges. Ramazanov wrote under the pen name Rasha...
A judge from the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic has ordered the withdrawal of a case after being blackmailed. This is the first time ever that a judge in Chechnya has publicly spoke out regardi...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the brutal violence at the LGBT meeting “Rainbow Coffee” in St Petersburg this week. Two persons where badly injured by antigay attackers. Aggression and violent attack...
In a joint call issued on the eve of the Presidential election, which takes place on 9 October, 22 human rights organisations and press freedom campaigners warn that the failure of the government of A...
An independent news editor in Azerbaijan has been sentenced to 5 years in prison just before the country’s presidential elections on 9 October. Civil Rights Defenders condemns the sentence against Hil...
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