Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
Civil Rights Defenders condemn the politically motivated sentencing of Azerbaijani investigative journalist Khadiya Ismayilova to 7.5 years in prison. Today, 1 September, Khadiya was convicted by the ...
In an open letter, Civil Rights Defenders and a coalition of international, regional and domestic human rights groups addresses the deteriorating human rights situation in Cambodia and ensuring that t...
The Sport for Rights coalition that includes Civil Rights Defenders recently issued a statement calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Leyla and Arif Yunus, as well as other jailed jou...
Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni signed the draft Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organisations (LANGO) last night, on the same day the Constitutional Council declared the legislation constit...
Despite an international and domestic outcry, the Cambodian National Assembly passed the restrictive and unnecessary draft Law on Association and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) today with unan...
In an open letter issued today, Civil Rights Defenders joins 39 other regional and international civil society organisations in urging the government of Cambodia to immediately withdraw the draft Law ...
The government of Myanmar should immediately release from custody and drop charges against student protesters for the peaceful exercise of freedom of assembly, Civil Rights Defenders said today. In tw...
Civil Rights Defenders together with several other civil society organisations who are members of the Sport for Rights Coalition has issued a statement calling on the Azerbaijani authorities to put an...
Le Quoc Quan, a prominent human rights lawyer and blogger, left An Diem prison in Quang Nam province last Saturday after completing his 30 month sentence. Civil Rights Defenders considers the 2013 “ta...
In mid-June, the Council of Ministers sent the draft Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organisations (LANGO) to the National Assembly. In a letter to the President of the National Assembly, Civ...
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