Statements

Former Defenders’ Days participant and Cuban human rights defender Lia Villares was detained Wednesday afternoon together with actress Iris Ruiz, and their location is still unknown. The security poli...

Today, 30 November, the Supreme Court of Danang upheld the 10-year sentence of prominent human rights defender and blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh (known by her pen name Mother Mushroom). The appeal hea...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law new legislative amendments targeting the independent media and fostering media censorship. Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the intensified...

Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the recent escalation of repression of Crimean Tatars in the occupied peninsula, culminating in the raids on private homes on 23 November and resulted in the d...

The Azerbaijani government’s proposed amendments to the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure and the Bar Act were approved by parliament on 31 October 2017. The amendments, which were first prop...

Together with 36 other human rights NGOs, Civil Rights Defenders has sent an open letter to EU member states heads ahead of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Brussels to participate in the...

On 8 November 2017, Civil Rights Defenders and 14 other organisations sent an open letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, calling for the immediate...

On 24 August, around 250 police officers violently dispersed a peaceful assembly of approximately 50 people, the majority of whom were female local citizens of Kruščica, a village in the municipality ...

Public Statement: End Judicial Harassment and Impunity for Attacks Against Independent Media. The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists should be a wake-up call to end the r...

On 23 October 2017, Civil Rights Defenders and 54 other organisations sent an open letter to Mr. António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Joko Widodo, Preside...