Over 2.000 immigrants, allegedly without documents, have been detained in Moscow and more than 500 are currently kept in a detention camp expecting deportation. “Attacks against the most vulnerable gr...
Journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev was murdered early in the morning of 9 July, close to Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev was a local correspondent of the news portal Caucasian...
Coming Out, one of Russia’s most prominent LGBT organisations and a partner of Civil Rights Defenders has been labeled a “foreign agent” by a court in St. Petersburg and fined with an equivalent of 12...
On Tuesday 11 June, the Russian Duma passed legal amendments prohibiting “propaganda” of non-traditional sexual relationships among minors. The changes are part of a larger campaign to restrict human ...
Three United Nations independent human rights experts express serious concern at the “obstructive, intimidating and stigmatizing effects” brought about by the implementation in the Russian Federation ...
In the last week, a number of nongovernmental organisations across Russia have received vague written communications and loosely worded warnings from the Prosecutor’s Office. This happened in the afte...
On 22 January the European Court of Human Rights handed down the first judgement of a case stemming from Chechnya under Ramzan Kadyrov’s rule. The case regards Tamerlan Suleymanov, who was abducted in...
Civil Rights Defenders urges Swedish authorities to denounce the proposed Russian bill on “propaganda of homosexuality among minors” and call on Russian authorities to honor their international and do...
On 19 December the Russian Duma will begin the first reading of a bill which, if passed, effectively will ban “propaganda of homosexuality” in the country. The bill is allegedly aimed at protecting ch...
The Night Watch – this is what a group of about 20 Russia Young activists called the late-night act of vandalism on the premises of two internationally funded Russian human rights organisations as wel...
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