The authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenka has executed three inmates, according to Belarusian human rights organisation Viasna. Henadz Yakavitski, Ivan Kulesh and Siarhei Khmialeuski were all s...
On 22 November, an essay was launched by the Foreign Policy Centre (UK) compiled by an anonymous Human Rights Defender from Chechnya in cooperation with Civil Rights Defenders about the repressions fa...
On 26 October, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider the appeal by human rights lawyers Ms Marina Dubrovina and Mr Dokka Itslaev of the special ruling by a judge of the Supreme Cou...
In its eight year history as one of Russia’s largest LGBTI festivals, QueerFest has been marred by violence, hate speech, harassment of participants and forced venue cancellations by the authorities. ...
Anna Politkovskaya worked as a journalist at the investigative paper Novaya Gazeta and was internationally famous for her reports about human rights abuses in warn-torn Chechnya. On 7 October 2006 she...
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...
Civil Rights Defenders condemns the conviction of Zhalaudi Geriev, a reporter with the Russian news site Caucasian Knot, for three years imprisonment for possession of narcotics. According to his lawy...
This week, thousands of people gather in the capital of Sweden to take a positive stance against discrimination toward LGBT people, and to celebrate dignity, equality, diversity and human rights. Whil...
The 2016 edition of Time to Act was released in connection with Civil Rights Defenders’ annual conference, Defenders’ Days – Empowering Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The magazine gives an overview o...
Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the violent attacks on our partner, The Joint Mobile Group, and six journalists from Sweden, Norway and Russia. At the time of one of the attacks six journalis...
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