Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Russia: Sham Trial of Human Rights Leader Draws to a Close
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov reading Franz Kafka’s The Trial in a Moscow courtroom during his trial, February 2024. © 2024 Ekaterina Yanshina, for Memorial (Moscow) – Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, has begun reading his closing statement following what was clearly a sham trial, Human Rights Watch said today. Orlov,...
Russia: Sham Trial of Human Rights Leader Draws to a Close
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov reading Franz Kafka’s The Trial in a Moscow courtroom during his trial, February 2024. © 2024 Ekaterina Yanshina, for Memorial (Moscow, February 26, 2024) –Oleg Orlov, a leading Russian human rights defender, has begun reading his closing statement following what was clearly a sham trial, Human Rights Watch...
Russia: Navalny Dies in Prison
Click to expand Image Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia take part in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, Russia on March 29, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin (Berlin, February 16, 2024) – The Kremlin bears responsibility for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in...
Russia: First Convictions Under LGBT ‘Extremist’ Ruling
Click to expand Image Oleg Nefedov, a judge of Russia’s Supreme Court, reads a decision on a ministry of justice’s request to brand the “international LGBT movement” an extremist organisation and ban its activity, in Moscow on November 30, 2023. © 2023 NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images Russian courts have issued the...
UN’s Financial Troubles Jeopardize Critical Human Rights Work
Click to expand Image Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019. © 2019 Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP A cash crunch and hiring freeze at the United Nations threaten to hinder UN human rights investigations in places like...
28th London Human Rights Watch Film Festival Kicks Off in March
Click to expand Image Still image from the film Mediha. (London) – The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 28th year in London, presents a lineup of 10 award-winning, international feature-length films, in partnership with Barbican Cinema and Rich Mix and generously supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. The festival...
Ukraine: New Findings on Russia’s Devastation of Mariupol
Click to expand Image Universytets’ka Street in central Mariupol, Ukraine, on March 10, 2022, a day after Russian aircraft attacked the area. © 2022 AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka The Russian assault on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol in 2022 left thousands of civilians dead and injured, including many in apparently unlawful attacks, new...
The Price of Defiance in Russia
Click to expand Image Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Memorial, Moscow, Russia, November 14, 2023. © 2023 Hannah Wagner/picture-alliance-dpa/AP Photo Amid the Kremlin’s vicious drive to eliminate dissent, last week brought two disturbing new developments in the prosecution of Oleg Orlov, cochair of leading Russian human rights organization...
Playing Politics with the Right to Seek Asylum in the US
Click to expand Image Demonstrators gather near the White House in Washington, DC for a protest to speak out against the Biden administration’s reported plans for new asylum restrictions at the southern border, March 16, 2023. © 2023 Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto via AP Given all the political grandstanding in this presidential election year,...
Thailand: Don’t Return Rock Band Members to Russia
Click to expand Image The rock band Bi-2 performs in Estoril, Portugal, July 6, 2023. © 2023 Horacio Villalobos/Corbis via Getty Images (Bangkok) – Members of the exiled Russian-Belarusian rock band Bi-2 face persecution for their public criticism of the Russian government if Thailand deports them to Russia, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai...
