Russia’s Supreme Court has dismissed the Justice Ministry’s petition to shut down the Russian Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society Memorial (Society Memorial), one of Russia’s ...
On 16 January, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Civil Rights Defenders long-term partner Committee against Torture (CAT) to the register of “foreign agents”. CAT is widely respected f...
On 28 December, 2014 the Police of the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina forcibly entered the premises of Klix-ba, one of the most influential web portals based out of Sarajevo. According to ...
The Russian Ministry of Justice entered Civil Rights Defenders’ long-term partner ’Rakurs’ into the register of ’foreign agents’ on 15 December this year. Rakurs is the first LGBT organisation t...
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...
QueerFest, one of the biggest LGBTQ-events in Russia and supported by Civil Rights Defenders, opened on 18 September in St. Petersburg. Since the start the festival has been plagued by threats, violen...
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 ...
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