TurkmenistanCampaigns, Open Letters and News AlertsJune 2019
Joint Letter: Turkmenistan Country Strategy Review by the EBRD
On 18 June 2019, International Partnership, Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch sent a joint letter to the president of the...
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...
UzbekistanReports & Briefing PapersJune 2019
EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue: EU to raise key fundamental rights issues
On 24 June 2019, the fifteenth round of the EU-Uzbekistan Human Rights Dialogue will take place in Brussels. A briefing paper prepared for the dialogue...
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...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Kazakhstan: civil society calls on the authorities to put a stop to the wave...
Following the mass arbitrary restrictions of rights and freedoms of the people by state representatives in Nur-Sultan and Almaty on 9 and 10 June...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesJune 2019
Kazakh human rights lawyer harassed
Yesterday morning Aiman Umarova found the family dog killed in her garden. The killing of her dog is the latest of a series of...
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...
KyrgyzstanReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue: Briefing paper documents civil society concerns
The tenth round of the EU-Kyrgyzstan Human Rights Dialogue will take in Brussels on 27 May 2019. A briefing paper prepared for the dialogue...
UkraineReports & Briefing PapersMay 2019
New report: Fighting terrorism or terrorising activism? Persecution of civic activists in Crimea
At 06:00 a.m on 27 March 2019, Russian security forces (siloviki) began carrying out a coordinated large-scale operation across the Crimean Peninsula. Doors were...