Theme: Human Rights Defenders

Happy New Year! The end of one calendar year and the start of another is a good time to talk about which events of the past year hold the promise of change and give us something to work on in…

International Memorial Board Statetment On 28 December 2021 Russia’s Supreme Court ruled to close International Memorial. The lawsuit, filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, referred to a missing ‘foreign agent’ designation on some of the materials produced by International Memorial. This is only a formal pretext, though, and the court hearings showed that…

The next Supreme Court session concerning International Memorial is scheduled for December 14. Much has already been said about the fact that this suit insults the memory of the millions of people crushed by Stalin’s repressions and that this threat…

On Human Rights Day – December 10, 2021 – the Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Novaya gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov. This is the first time the prize has been awarded to a citizen of Russia, although it was previously awarded to…

On The International Women Human Rights Defenders Day we would like to draw special attention to the situation of women human rights defenders in Belarus. Since the spring of 2020, civil society in this country was being viciously attacked with…

We, the undersigned 50 organizations of the International Federation for Human Rights, condemn in the harshest terms the ongoing attempts by the Russian authorities to liquidate two of Russia’s foremost human rights NGOs: International Memorial and its related organization, member…