Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
We, the undersigned 26 international human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service Telegram, w...
Journalists and the independent media in Belarus risk being hit with new repressive legislation designed to curtail freedom of expression and silence critical voices. The draft amendments to the media...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns continuation of systemic discrimination of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, LGBT, community in respect to the right to peaceful assembly and freedom...
The campaign of attacks on Hungarian human rights defenders continues with Prime Minister Viktor Orban announcing adoption of legislation that will significantly curtail freedom of assembly and associ...
On Thursday, 29 March 2018, six Turkish citizens were arbitrary arrested by the Kosovo Police and Intelligence Agency, and deported to Turkey. Civil Rights Defenders calls on the Parliament of Kosovo ...
On 28 March, Sirazhutdin Datsiev, the head of Human Rights Center Memorial’s Dagestan office, was violently attacked by an unknown person. Datsiev’s colleagues believe that the attack is a result of h...
One year after the first reports about the anti-gay purge in the Chechen Republic were published, RFSL (Swedish Federation for LGBTQ Rights) and Civil Rights Defenders urge the Russian authorities to ...
On 8 March 2018 – International women’s day – a women’s rights parade in Kiev, Ukraine was attacked by 200 ultra-right radicals armed with sticks and tear gas. Furthermore, one of the organisers of th...
12 Human Rights Groups Call for Journalist’s, Others’ Immediate Release (Bishkek, February 12, 2018) – Uzbek authorities should ensure a thorough, impartial, and independent investigation into the all...
Around the world, lawyers’ work is becoming increasingly difficult as they face retaliation, harassment and abuse as a result of performing their professional duties representing human rights defender...
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