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...
Five years ago Natalia Estemirova, a prominent human rights defender working in Chechnya was brutally murdered for her human rights work. Although the Russian authorities have repeatedly guaranteed to...
17 May, the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT), is celebrated all over the world. On this important day Civil Rights Defenders is taking action by participating in a demonst...
Kyrgyzstan has followed the Russian example by introducing a bill to criminalise the distribution of information regarding LGBT issues. The Kyrgyz proposal goes even further than the Russian law in it...
In 2013 Vladimir Putin signed a law banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors” in Russia. In recent events these “propaganda laws” have been used to curb freedom of expression ...
The North Caucasus is situated only 70 miles from Sotji. It’s the site for Europe’s bloodiest conflict in present times and it’s a region where the local population suffer indiscriminate violenc...
A court in Arkhangelsk, Northern Russia has found two LGBT activists in breach of a law against “propaganda” promoting “non-traditional” relationships to minors. Nikolai Alexeyev co-founder of the Mos...
A recent attack on a participant of a peaceful action on LGBT rights has been met with legal consequences for the first time in Russia. Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the ruling and hopes that the ve...
A judge from the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic has ordered the withdrawal of a case after being blackmailed. This is the first time ever that a judge in Chechnya has publicly spoke out regardi...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the brutal violence at the LGBT meeting “Rainbow Coffee” in St Petersburg this week. Two persons where badly injured by antigay attackers. Aggression and violent attack...
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