Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the Moscow court’s ruling to deport Khudoberdi Nurmatov, an openly gay journalist and an asylum seeker, to Uzbekistan where he previously faced torture and harassm...
On Friday 7 July, prominent journalist Dragana Peco’s apartment was broken into while she was not at home. Her belongings had been moved around but no valuable items were stolen. In the recent past, s...
In a joint open letter, Civil Rights Defenders and 163 other organisations urge the government of Cambodia to establish an independent and impartial Commission of Inquiry, in line with international s...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the arrest and arbitrary detention of eight human rights defenders in Turkey on 5 July 2017. The arrest took place during a workshop titled “Protection of Human Rights ...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns consecutive guilty verdicts issued by a Kyrgyz court starting on 30 June in five separate libel cases filed by the Prosecutor-General’s office on behalf of President Al...
By the end of June, a human rights defender was shot dead in Uganda. The National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders Uganda, one of Civil Rights Defenders key partners in the country, has issued a st...
Concerned by reports that the Myanmar authorities will retain the criminal defamation provision of Section 66(d) during a review of the Telecommunications Law, 61 national and international human righ...
Vietnamese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known by her blogging pseudonym, Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom), Amnesty International...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns a new series of attacks on freedom of expression in Azerbaijan. We are now witnessing even more ruthless methods of repressions such as abduction, forced return, and to...
Since the National League of Democracy (NLD) took office in Myanmar in 2016 the new administration has failed to carry out significant reform. We recognise the continued domination by the military, bu...
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