Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
In an open letter addressed to the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, Civil Rights Defenders together with 40 other human rights organisations have called for the immediate release of all...
The 23 defendants, including four human rights defenders, charged in Cambodia were released on 30 May, 2014. Their release comes after the Court which had convicted the defendants but suspended their ...
Yesterday, 27 May, was a bleak day for freedom of speech as Azerbajani journalist and blogger Abdul Abilov was sentenced to five and a half years on trumped up drug charges. Abilov was charged after v...
A trial involving four human rights defenders and garment factory workers begun in Phnom Penh on 25 April amid heavy security. The 23 defendants had been arrested when security forces cracked down on ...
Kyrgyzstan has followed the Russian example by introducing a bill to criminalise the distribution of information regarding LGBT issues. The Kyrgyz proposal goes even further than the Russian law in it...
On 23 March Civil Rights Defenders, together with several other civil society groups, sent a joint letter to the Royal Government of Cambodia and called for immediate investigation into the disappeara...
The Cambodian government announced a ban on demonstrations after a violent crackdown on striking garment factory workers. On 2 and 3 January, security forces shot dead at least four workers and injure...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the death threats directed towards Aida Corovic, a leading human rights defender in Sandzak, Serbia, and requests a quick and firm response from the authoritie...
On 17 October, just a week after the presidential election, the sale of several daily newspapers including the newspaper Azadliq was banned in metro stations in Baku. Azadliq is one of few remaining o...
On 22 November, the Cambodian Supreme Court is hearing the final appeal of human rights defender Yorm Bopha. Civil Rights Defenders believes she is imprisoned for her human rights activism. For more t...
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