Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
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...
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...
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