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 ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law new legislative amendments targeting the independent media and fostering media censorship. Civil Rights Defenders strongly condemns the intensified...
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...
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...
Sunday’s parliamentary elections to the Russian Duma are held in a more repressive climate than ever, since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Freedom of Expression, Association and Assembly as wel...
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...
Since Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin in May 2012 the human rights situation in Russia has worsened significantly. The Kremlin’s focus has been on curtailing freedom of expression of human righ...
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