On 31 August 2021, the European Court of Human Rights issued a long-awaited judgement in the case of Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova who was murdered in July 2009. The Court...
Civil Rights Defenders and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee condemn the detention by the FSB (Federal Security Service) agents in Moscow of Ivan Pavlov, prominent Russian lawyer and the head of a huma...
Magomed Gadaev, a Chechen asylum seeker in France and key witness in a high-profile torture investigation against Chechnya’s authorities, was abducted on 11 April by Chechen police afte...
On 15 March 2021, journalist Elena Milashina from the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta published an investigation into a mass execution in Chechnya in 2017. Following the publicatio...
In a letter to Russia’s Prosecutor General, Igor Krasnov, Civil Rights Defenders and six human rights organisations express concern over the unfounded criminal prosecution of Yulia Tsvetkova, a ...
The Russian State Duma will consider proposed amendments to the 2012 Foreign Agents law on 15 December 2020. These amendments pose serious consequences to an already embattled civil society. The top t...
While 2020 has brought unique challenges to civil society, NGOs and initiative groups have demonstrated inspiring resilience. Despite the pandemic, the annual festivals QueerFest in St. Petersburg and...
Homophobia and transphobia remain widespread in Belarus. Following a recent statement by the country’s Ministry of Health, the LGBTI+ community now worries that Belarus will follow the same path as Ru...
Amendment Would Extend Restrictions to Individuals, Including Bloggers. Civil Rights Defenders, together with nine human rights organisations, is concerned by a new bill before the Russian parliament ...
On 6 November, a Moscow city court sided with the Russian Ministry of Justice and ordered the closure of Russia’s only and strongest indigenous rights organisations, the Centre for the Support of Indi...
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