Civil Rights Defenders condemns the Moscow court’s ruling to deport Khudoberdi Nurmatov, an openly gay journalist and an asylum seeker, to Uzbekistan where he previously faced torture and harassm...
Civil Rights Defenders welcomes the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which ruled that Russian special forces were directly involved in the kidnapping of Oleg Orlov, the then-head...
The last several weeks have seen a marked deterioration in the human rights situation in Russia, including the first criminal case brought under the widely-criticised “foreign agents” law, the passage...
President Putin has signed a law that will allow the Constitutional Court of Russia to deem as unenforceable decisions from the International Courts including the European Court of Human Rights. “This...
In less than a month since the passing of a controversial law on “Undesirable Foreign and International Organisations” the Russian authorities have now taken steps towards banning 12 overseas organisa...
Civil Rights Defenders is extremely concerned by yesterday’s violent attack against the Committee Against Torture’s Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Chechnya and demand that the Russian State fully investi...
The final stumbling block to the passing of the draconian “Undesirable Foreign and International Organisations” law was overcome the end of May when President Putin officially signed it into law. Any ...
In January of this year Russian authorities took new steps to further shrink the space that civil society can operate in by proposing a new law on “undesirable foreign and international organisations”...
The Russian authorities have recently accused the Centre for Social and Psychological Help and Judicial Aid for Victims of Discrimination and Homophobia (Maximum) of being a foreign agent. Maximum, a ...
Recently state-controlled Russian channel, NTV featured a piece about Civil Rights Defenders’ long term partner Memorial suggesting that the organisation was supporting terrorists and radical gr...
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