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06.05.2024

Human rights defender Anar Mammadli is the latest victim of Azerbaijan’s intensified crackdown against civil society: Mammadli should be released immediately

We, the undersigned human rights organisations, condemn in strongest possible terms the Azerbaijani authorities’ detention of Anar Mammadli, a prominent human rights defender, leader of the country’s largest independent election watchdog and member of the Network of Human Rights Houses. We demand his immediate and unconditional release. The list of signatories continues to be updated.
01.05.2024

LEGAL EVALUATION OF THE APRIL 30 - MAY 1 RALLY DISPERSAL

On April 30, 2024 and in the early hours of May 1, 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs broke up a peaceful demonstration against the Russian law was illegitimate and disproportionate, the physical force used amounted to torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and the practice of administrative detention became an instrument of excessive restriction of freedom of assembly. Details will be reviewed below.
01.05.2024

AT 17:00, AT THE PARLIAMENT - YES TO EUROPE, NOT TO RUSSIAN LAW!

Yesterday, on April 30, 2024, at a peaceful demonstration, where citizens were protesting the Russian Law, the Ministry of Internal Affairs started to break up the demonstration without any reason whatsoever.
25.04.2024

THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS SUSPEND COOPERATION FORMATS WITH THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL THE RUSSIAN LAW IS DROPPED

1. Suspend cooperation with the government until the government drops the bill;2. Will never register in any defaming registers;3. Call on everyone, on Sunday, April 28, at 19:00, to protest against the Russian law in Republic Square. We also invite everyone to protest if a second plenary hearing is scheduled.
17.04.2024

Coalition: Judges Must Protect the Rights of Peaceful Protestors Arrested at the Rally

The Coalition for Independent and Transparent Judiciary calls upon the relevant judges of the common courts to uphold the constitutional rights of citizens arrested during the peaceful assembly against Russian law. The Coalition urges judges not to make illegal or unjust decisions against detainees and not to encourage arbitrary actions of police in the country
17.04.2024

GEORGIAN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS DEFEND THE RIGHTS OF ALL DETAINEES

Yesterday, on April 16, the police arrested 13 peaceful protesters who enjoyed the right of freedom of assembly and expression and defended Georgia's European future. We, Georgian non-governmental organizations, were looking for detainees in the detention centers the whole night, meeting them, talking to them, describing the facts of the violations of their rights.
17.04.2024

Authorities in Georgia & Republika Srpska must irrevocably withdraw legislation threatening to stifle independent civil society

Human Rights House Foundation and members of the Network of Human Rights Houses urge the Parliament of Georgia and the National Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Republika Srpska to drop proposed “Foreign agent” legislation that can damage civil society'
15.04.2024

PARTISAN PRESSURE ON PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES MUST END

On April 13, an audio recording was released, which once again confirms the government's pressure on public service employees to fulfill the political party-related tasks and, among other things, spread disinformation damaging to European integration. This is insulting to the public servants and their dignity, it contradicts the principle of political neutrality of the public service.
13.04.2024

The government's anti-EU statements contradict the will of the Georgian people and the Constitution of Georgia

Yesterday, on April 11, "Georgian Dream" published on its official Facebook page the message of the general secretary of the party, the mayor of Tbilisi, Kakha Kaladze, with the following content: "No union is worth giving up the interests of my country and people."
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