Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
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...
In a letter to Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy dated the 9 June 2015, Civil Rights Defenders and our partner The Forum for Rights and F...
As members of the Sport for Rights campaign, we are writing regarding the inaugural European Games that will take place from 12–28 June in Baku, Azerbaijan. Although the Azerbaijani regime spends a gr...
Civil Rights Defenders is extremely concerned by yesterday’s violent attack against the Committee Against Torture’s Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Chechnya and demand that the Russian State fully investi...
On 5 March, Civil Rights Defenders filed a lawsuit against the Swedish State with the Stockholm District Court. The organisation acts as legal representatives for 11 individuals from the Roma communit...
On 24 May 2009, Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, Vietnamese ICT entrepreneur and blogger, was arrested under the initial charge of “promoting anti-government propaganda” under Article 88 of the Vietnamese Penal C...
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