Statements

Civil Rights Defenders condemns consecutive guilty verdicts issued by a Kyrgyz court starting on 30 June in five separate libel cases filed by the Prosecutor-General’s office on behalf of President Al...

By the end of June, a human rights defender was shot dead in Uganda. The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Uganda, one of Civil Rights Defenders key partners in the country, has issued a st...

Concerned by reports that the Myanmar authorities will retain the criminal defamation provision of Section 66(d) during a review of the Telecommunications Law, 61 national and international human righ...

Vietnamese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known by her blogging pseudonym, Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom), Amnesty International...

Civil Rights Defenders condemns a new series of attacks on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. We are now witnessing even more ruthless methods of repressions such as abduction, forced return, and to...

Since the National League of Democracy (NLD) took office in Myanmar in 2016 the new administration has failed to carry out significant reform. We recognise the continued domination by the military, bu...

9 June 2017 Mr. António Guterres United Nations Secretary-General United Nations 405 E 42nd St. New York, NY 10017 Dear Mr. Guterres, In advance of your upcoming trip to Tajikistan, we write to reques...

Civil Rights Defenders urges the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to use his visit to the five nations that comprise Central Asia, to publicly advocate for human rights. We also call on the Secre...

Dear Mr. Krvirikashvili, we write to express our deepest concern about the abduction of Afgan Mukhtarli, an exiled Azerbaijani journalist, on 29 May in Tbilisi. He went missing after leaving his colle...

Prominent Turkish human rights defender and Co-Director of Hafiza Merkezi (Truth Justice Memory Centre), Murat Çelikkan was charged on 16 May under “terror organisation propaganda” and sentenced by su...