Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
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...
We, the undersigned, request you to resolutely address the disappearance of Sombath Somphone at the upcoming Universal Periodic Review for the Lao PDR on January 20, 2015. Enforced disappearance is a ...
The office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny, Chechnya, was destroyed by an arson attack on 13 December 2014. The following day Chechen police raided the apartment of JMG employees confiscatin...
On 10 December a coalition of Vietnamese civil society groups, Civil Rights Defenders and other international human rights organisations, urged the Vietnamese authorities to give three detained human ...
Prominent Vietnamese blogger Dieu Cay has been released after years in prison. But the Vietnamese authorities effectively forced him into exile. On 21 October, Dieu Cay, whose real name is Nguyen Van ...
Stockholm, 15 August, 2014 Dear President Ilham Aliyev, Minister of Justice Fikrat Mammadov and Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov, Civil Rights Defenders wish to express our deepest concern over the re...
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...
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