Statements

Burma’s recent crackdown on protesters highlights the urgency that the international community encourage the Government of Burma to reform the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law in accordan...

Together with Freedom Now, Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Civil Rights Defenders writes to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs a...

Cuban photographer, human rights defender and former Defenders’ Days participant Claudio Fuentes was detained on Tuesday 10 July at 05:00 pm on 3rd avenue at 46th street in Miramar, Havana by the Cuba...

Turkey’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex, LGBTI, community celebrated the Istanbul Pride parade on Sunday, 1 July 2018. The organisers pressed ahead with the march despite Turkish authoriti...

Noting the one year anniversary of her first trial, Civil Rights Defenders reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of Vietnamese blogger Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, popularly known ...

Cuban photographer, human rights defender and former Defenders’ Days participant Claudio Fuentes was detained yesterday, Thursday 7 June, by the Cuban security police near his home in Havana. Police s...

Update: In the evening of 5 June, Emin Aslan’s lawyer Elchin Sadigov was informed Aslan had been sentenced to thirty days administrative detention under Article 535.1 of the Code of Administrative Off...

This statement was issued when all friends, family, and colleagues of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko were under the impression he had been murdered by persons unknown in Kyiv, Ukraine. Several ho...

Civil Rights Defenders calls for the immediate release of Venezuelan human rights lawyers Orlando Gonzalez and Oscar Rios of Foro Penal, detained yesterday, 16 May. As reported by Rachel Sanchez, work...

The state of human rights in Tanzania is deteriorating and the political space for dissents narrowing down rapidly. The fine levied on five television stations for airing a press statement made by the...