RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJuly 2019
Meet your defender: Interview with Anna Dobrovolskaya (RU)
This time IPHR team interviewed Anna Dobrovolskaya, an Executive Director of Human Rights Centre Memorial. Anna represents a young generation of HRD both in...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJuly 2019
On the 10th anniversary of Natalia Estemirova’s murder, human rights groups call for justice...
On the 10th anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, Chechnya’s most prominent human rights defender, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) joined eight international...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Human rights defender Oyub Titiev released on parole after spending 17 months in prison
Human rights defender Oyub Titiev was released on parole today after serving 17 months of a four-year prison sentence on fabricated charges. Titiev and...
RussiaReports & Briefing PapersJune 2019
Russian Federation: The trial and conviction of human rights defender Oyub Titiev
A travesty of justice and a dire warning to human rights defenders to stop documenting the abysmal human rights situation in Russia’s Chechnya
On 18 March...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Civil society warns Council of Europe that the time is not right to lift...
At its June part-Session, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (further PACE) will vote on lifting the sanctions imposed on Russia after...
RussiaCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsMay 2019
Meet your defender: Kirill Koroteev on choosing career path, EHCR and human side of...
Kirill Koroteev specialises in taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and has an impressive win/loss record in cases. Previously he...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2019
Russia: Reject “Sovereign” Internet Bill
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), together with 9 human rights, media and Internet freedom organisations, calls on Russian President Vladmir Putin, not to...
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...