Statements

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...

On 10 October 2016, Vietnamese authorities arrested blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known by her pen name Me Nam (Mother Mushroom), on charges of spreading propaganda against the State. On 29 June, Me ...

Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the release of human rights defender Azam Farmonov and journalist Salidzhon Abdurakhmanov from Uzbek prisons. Farmonov and Abdurakhmanov were unfairly sentenced in reta...

The situation for media freedoms has been deteriorating dramatically over the last few years in Serbia. Smear campaigns targeting the independent media remains a large issue and seem to have reached a...

Over the last several days, police in Baku, Azerbaijan carried out mass arrests of at least 100 members of the LGBT community. In official statements, local authorities and government-friendly NG...