Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
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...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction by a court in Russia-controlled Crimea of Akhtem Chiyhoz, the deputy leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis assembly, and calls upon the government of the Ru...
Today, Civil Rights Defenders signed an open letter to the Member and Observer states of the UN Human Rights Council. The letter calls for urgent action on the situation in Burma: Dear Excellencies We...
The Hague, 5 September 2017 Dear members of the IAP Executive Committee and the Senate, Dear members of the IAP, In the run-up to the annual conference and general meeting of the International Associa...
Civil Rights Defenders is deeply concerned by the recent actions of the Belarusian authorities and condemns the harassment of Henadz Fiadynich, the Chairman of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union o...
Civil Rights Defenders, the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders – Kenya (NCHRD-K), DefendDefenders (the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project) and CIVICUS: World Alliance for...
The Turkish human rights defender Murat Çelikkan, who is facing an 18 months’ prison sentence, has turned himself into prison after the Istanbul Regional Court rejected his plea. Civil Rights Defender...
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