Statements about human rights, the situation and developments in repressive regions around the world.
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...
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 ...
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