RussiaStatements & Press ReleasesJanuary 2018
Russia: rights defender arbitrarily arrested in Chechnya
Free Oyub Titiev, Drop All Charges
Police in Chechnya have arbitrarily arrested Oyub Titiev, head of the local office of Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2017
Turkmenistan: Attack on activist’s mother highlights unrelenting pressure on critical voices
The campaign of the Turkmenistani government against civil society activists, journalists and others who criticize the current state of affairs in the country shows...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesReports & Briefing PapersFebruary 2017
Threats to civic space in Kazakhstan: Freedom of association and expression
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and its Central Asian partners are now cooperating with the CIVICUS Monitor, an initiative aimed at tracking civic...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesNovember 2015
EU: Raise free speech and torture cases with Kazakhstan
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) and Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law (KIBHR) call on the EU to prominently...
AzerbaijanStatements & Press ReleasesMarch 2016
Azerbaijan: Solidarity movement relieved about the release of member
Renewed international pressure needed to secure freedom for all political prisoners
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), are extremely relieved that our colleague...
TajikistanStatements & Press ReleasesOctober 2014
Stop blocking websites in Tajikistan!
The widespread blocking of websites in Tajikistan in recent days seriously impedes the free circulation of information in the country and violates the right...
KyrgyzstanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2015
Kyrgyzstan: Reject “Foreign Agents” Bill in Plenary
We, members of the Civic Solidarity Platform (CSP), a network of human rights NGOs in Europe, North America and the former Soviet Union, call...
KazakhstanStatements & Press ReleasesMay 2013
Kazakhstani anti-corruption campaigner accused of hate speech, made to undergo psychiatric examinations
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) remains concerned about the case of journalist and human rights activist Alexander Kharlamov, an anti-corruption campaigner from the east Kazakhstan...
UzbekistanStatements & Press ReleasesFebruary 2017
Uzbekistan: Newspaper editor freed after being held for 18 years
The Association for Human Rights in Central Asia (AHRCA), Civil Rights Defenders (CRD), Freedom House, International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), the Norwegian Helsinki...
TurkmenistanStatements & Press ReleasesApril 2016
NGOs call on the European Parliament to postpone approval of EU-Turkmenistan treaty
Twenty-nine NGOs from 15 different countries call on the European Parliament to postpone approval of the new EU-Turkmenistan Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) until...