RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2019
Human rights defender Oyub Titiev convicted following unfair and absurd judicial process
Today a court in Chechnya, Russia, sentenced human rights defender Oyub Titiev to four years in prison on trumped-up charges after an unfair trial....
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2019
Miscarriage of justice: an update on the ongoing trial of Oyub Titiev
Oyub Titiev, the head of Memorial Human Rights Centre’s Chechnya office, has been in custody since 9 January 2018. He has reiterated his innocence on multiple occasions...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2018
Fighting for Justice: an update on the ongoing trial of Oyub Titiev
On 8 October 2018, Oyub Titiev was awarded the prestigious Vaclav Havel prize for making “a widely recognised contribution to the defence of human...
RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsAugust 2018
Extradition of Aslan Yandiev to the Russian Federation exposed him to a risk of...
On 17 July 2018, an ethnic Ingush, Aslan Yandiev was extradited from Slovakia to Russian Federation. Amnesty International, the Human Rights League and International...
RussiaUkraineCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2018
Sign the petition: Demand Donald Trump hold Vladimir Putin to international standards of free...
President Donald J. Trump
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We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, join PEN America in urging you...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2018
UN Statement on Telegram and restriction to internet freedoms in Russia
In a joint statement to the UN Human Rights Council of 27 June 2018, 52 (XX) civil society organizations raise their concerns about the trend...
RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2018
FIFA: PLAY FAIR! Fight for the forgotten: Campaign in support of political prisoners
In cooperation with IPHR partner, MEMORIAL Human Rights Centre Russia, the Greens/EFA group of the European Parliament prepared a map of Russia to draw attention...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2018
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online (updated)
This is the updated version of the statement, originally published on 30 April 2018.
We, the undersigned 53 international and Russian human rights, media...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2018
Russia: Telegram block leads to widespread assault on freedom of expression online
We, the undersigned 26 international human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, strongly condemn the attempts by the Russian Federation to block the Internet...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersMarch 2018
Under pressure: increased state restrictions on independent civil society in the Russian Federation
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) organized an advocacy visit for Oleg Orlov and Sergei Davidis from Memorial Human Right Centre to Brussels in...