JOINT STATEMENT Paris-Geneva-Brussels-Moscow, November 6, 2019 – Russian state agents searched the Perm office of the human rights NGO International Memorial and the house of its Chairman, Robert Latypov, last Thursday over alleged “illegal logging”. The Observatory for the…
July 15, 2019 — On the tenth anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, Chechnya’s most prominent human rights defender, nine international and two Russian human rights groups, jointly with FIDH and its member organization Human Rights Center “Memorial,” call…
Moscow City Court rejected a lawsuit against Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which was made by Johannes Rohr, a German expert on indigenous peoples. Rohr has challenged the decision of the FSB to ban him from entering Russia until 2069….
On 13 June 2018, prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, a major figure in the fight for human rights, was arrested and detained. Months later, in March 2019, she was handed a 33-year prison sentence and 148 lashes, following an unfair…
Today a court in Chechnya, Russia, sentenced human rights defender Oyub Titiev to 4 years in prison on trumped-up charges after an unfair trial. Titiev and the human rights NGO for which he was working – Memorial, have long been…
During the 40th session of the Human Rights Council, the week of February 25 to March 1 was declared a week in support of women human rights defenders. Michel Forst, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders,…
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