RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesCovid-19Reports & Briefing PapersAugust 2020
Human rights impact assessment of the COVID-19 response in Russia
What are the impacts on human rights of the restrictive measures imposed by the Government of Russia in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? How...
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...
AzerbaijanKazakhstanRussiaTajikistanUzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesSeptember 2014
Statement to OSCE conference: Worrying trends regarding religious freedoms in the OSCE region
Statement by International Partnership for Human Rights (Belgium), the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Nota Bene...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2021
Young woman at risk of torture and abuse after abduction and return to Chechnya
On 10 June 2021, police officers in Dagestan accompanied by Chechen law enforcement officials raided a women’s shelter in Makhachkala in search of Khalimat...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesAugust 2012
Russia: Civic Solidarity Platform statement on Pussy Riot
We, the undersigned members of the Civic Solidarity Platform, call on the Russian appellate court, upon the filing of an appeal, to uphold Russia’s...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2014
Russia: New “foreign agents” ruling against prominent group shows no end in sight to...
Moscow, Brussels, 23 May 2014. A Moscow court today rejected an appeal filed by the Memorial Human Rights Center, one of Russia’s most prominent human...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2008
Appeal to the EU – Demand concrete action to improve the situation of Russian...
Brussels/Moscow, 15 April 2008. On the eve of the new round of EU-Russia consultations on human rights, which will take place in Slovenia on 17...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2019
Russia: “Foreign Agents” Bill Threatens Journalists
Amendment Would Extend Restrictions to Individuals, Including Bloggers
A bill before the Russian parliament that would expand the status of “foreign agents” to private persons,...
RussiaUkraineStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2023
New Report Links Western-Made Components to the Weapons Used in Russia’s Suspected Ukraine War...
A new report, released by International Partnership for Human Rights and the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, has found that western-made dual-use components have continued to...
RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2014
New blow to NGOs in Russia: Two controversial court rulings in one day
Today Russia's Constitutional Court rejected a civil society petition to recognize the so-called Foreign Agents Law from 2012 as unconstitutional. In another decision today, a St. Petersburg...