As a consequence of their expansive work towards Chechen LGBT survivors, human rights organisation the Russian LGBT Network has faced yet another crackdown from allegedly Chechen perpetrators. Civil R...
It has been one year since Oyub Titiev, head of the Chechen office of Russian human rights group Memorial – was arrested and deprived of liberty. Civil Rights Defenders emphasises the arbitrariness of...
Russian human rights defender and co-founder of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Ludmilla Alexseyeva, has passed away at the age of 91. For more than seven decades, she has been a symbol of justice within t...
On 27 June 2018, Article 19, on behalf of Civil Rights Defenders and 50 other organisations, delivered an oral statement to the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, highlighting co...
We, the undersigned 53 international and Russian human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet messaging service...
On 28 March, Sirazhutdin Datsiev, the head of Human Rights Center Memorial’s Dagestan office, was violently attacked by an unknown person. Datsiev’s colleagues believe that the attack is a result of h...
“You’re walking on the edge of the abyss. Shut down! Next time we’ll burn your office, with you inside. The car is just a warning.” The recent series of threats and harassment of Russian human rights ...
On his way to work on 9 January 2018, Oyub Titiev, director of Human Rights Center Memorial’s Grozny office, disappeared. Seven hours passed before officials confirmed that he has been detained at the...
In the morning of 9 January, Russian human rights defender Oyub Titiev was allegedly detained by the police. Several hours later, the head of the Kurchaloy district police station confirmed that Oyub ...
The opening ceremony of the ninth QueerFest, supported by Civil Rights Defenders, was a success from start to finish. For the second year in a row, the festival could open without disruptions of viole...
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