On Friday, March 2, 2018, Uzbek and international media reported that Uzbekistan freed yet another journalist from prison – Yusuf Ruzimuradov – who spent 19 years in jail, longer than any other report...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the recent escalation of repression of Crimean Tatars in the occupied peninsula, culminating in the raids on private homes on 23 November and resulted in the d...
The Azerbaijani government’s proposed amendments to the Code of Civil and Administrative Procedure and the Bar Act were approved by parliament on 31 October 2017. The amendments, which were first prop...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction by a court in Russia-controlled Crimea of Akhtem Chiyhoz, the deputy leader of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis assembly, and calls upon the government of the Ru...
Civil Rights Defenders urges the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to use his visit to the five nations that comprise Central Asia, to publicly advocate for human rights. We also call on the Secre...
Civil Rights Defenders is delighted to support the 8th International Queer Festival – “QueerFest 2016” —which began yesterday in St. Petersburg and will run until September 25. The Festival aims to pr...
Sunday’s parliamentary elections to the Russian Duma are held in a more repressive climate than ever, since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly as wel...
Civil Rights Defenders is gravely concerned regarding the security infringements of Magomed Mutsolgov, a prominent human rights defender and leader of MASHR, an Ingush human rights organisation locate...
On the 11th of October President Lukashenka will run for a 5th term in office. Civil Rights Defenders spoke to three Belarusian human rights defenders to hear what they have to say about the election....
Today, 4 August, is celebrated as the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society in Belarus. It is all the more important as the human rights landscape in Belarus has not improved, having been...
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