Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
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...
In the first five months of 2015, assaults and harassment of activists and bloggers continue with almost absolute impunity in Vietnam. At least 27 petitioners, activists and bloggers, including 6 wome...
The Government of Cambodia should facilitate and protect, not restrict, the legitimate work of civil society groups, which have voiced serious concerns regarding the pending passage of the Law on Asso...
On 22 April 2015, Intigam Aliyev an internationally renowned human rights lawyer was sentenced to seven and half years in prison. He was found guilty on politically motivated charges of tax evasion, i...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the decision of The Baku Court on Grave Crimes, which has sentenced Rasul Jafarov, prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender and Chairman of the Human Rights Club to ...
Since early 2014, the Government of Azerbaijan has orchestrated an unprecedented campaign to suppress dissenting voices in the country. As a result of this unrelenting crackdown on human rights and fu...
In August 2014, Emin Huseynov, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Reporter’s Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was forced into hiding in order to protect himself from Government repression. At the tim...
In the morning of 30 January 2015, two unidentified men came to human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai’s apartment in the capital Hanoi, violently broke the front door and threatened to burn his home and ...
Russian authorities have taken new steps to further shrink the space that civil society can operate in by proposing a new law on “undesirable foreign and international organisations”. On January 20 th...
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