News Oct 18, 2025 Why Uzbek Government Still Forces People To Pick Cotton Can you imagine living in a place where every year the government forces you to pick 50 kilos of cotton, every day, for 12 straight days, for just 5 cents a kilo? That’s the reality in Uzbekistan.
News Oct 17, 2017 Russian opposition leader’s fraud conviction arbitrary, Europe’s top rights court says STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s conviction for fraud in 2014 had been “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”..
News Oct 16, 2017 Kyrgyz Candidate Alleges Violations In Presidential Vote, But Suggests He Will Accept Result The chief rival of the candidate authorities say won the presidency in Kyrgyzstan has alleged the voting was marred by violations but suggested he would not challenge the official result, potentially paving the way for a peaceful transfer of power.
Blog Post Oct 13, 2017 The Russia Download // Special issue on elections and disinformation Last week, Facebook’s disclosure that an estimated 10 million people in the United States saw political ads bought by accounts connected to the Russian government rekindled the conversation about Russia’s interference in the U.S. elections.
News Oct 11, 2017 Wall Street Journal Reporter Sentenced to Prison by Turkish Court A Turkish court sentenced Wall Street Journal reporter Ayla Albayrak to two years and one month in prison Tuesday, declaring her guilty of engaging in terrorist propaganda in support of a banned Kurdish separatist organization through one of her Journal articles.
News Oct 10, 2017 Babanov Campaign Accuses Kyrgyz Election Officials Of Backing Ruling Party Candidate Kyrgyz presidential candidate Omurbek Babanov’s campaign team has accused election officials of obstructing his campaign and backing the candidate favored by outgoing President Almazbek Atambaev.
Press Release Oct 6, 2017 HRF Brings UN Attention to Rights Abuses in Turkmenistan and Cuba NEW YORK (October 6, 2017) — On October 4 and 5, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted contributions to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of Turkmenistan and Cuba.
News Oct 5, 2017 Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova wins 2017 Allard Prize When investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova asked an Azerbaijani court to let her travel to Canada for an award ceremony honouring her work, her request was denied.
News Oct 3, 2017 Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail MOSCOW — The Russian opposition politician Aleksei A. Navalny was convicted and sentenced to 20 days in jail by a Russian court on Monday for repeated violation of rules governing public demonstrations — a term long enough for him to miss a major rally he and supporters had scheduled for Saturday.
Press Release Aug 29, 2017 HRF Calls for Release of Detained Lawyers, End of Press Persecution in Tajikistan Yorov was initially arrested for agreeing to act as legal representation for members of the country’s Islamic opposition party, the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), and sentenced to 23 years of imprisonment.
Press Release Jul 26, 2017 Nicolas Cage Should Rescind Support of Kazakhstan’s Authoritarian Government This week, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage attended the Eurasia International Film Festival in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Press Release Jul 11, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 4) Real Russia Today is a news digest with the most important news from Russia.
Blog Post Jul 7, 2017 Russia tried to stop us from protesting On June 12, when I arrived to St. Petersburg’s Marsovo field, it wasn’t clear who came to participate in a protest and who was there just to celebrate Russia Day.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 HRF Real Russia Today (Part 1) The U.S. government on Wednesday unsealed charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 4) Britain’s high street banks processed nearly $740m from a vast money-laundering operation run by Russian criminals with links to the Russian government and the KGB, the Guardian can reveal.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 2) Three years ago, OCCRP exposed the “Russian Laundromat” – an immense financial fraud scheme that enabled vast sums to be pumped out of Russia.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 3) Ukraine asked the United Nations’ highest court on Monday to order Russia to stop funding and equipping pro-Russian separatists, at the start of a hearing where it hopes to prove Moscow is breaking international law.
Press Release Jun 30, 2017 HRF to Russia: Free Peaceful Protesters and Annul Their Convictions On June 12, Russian police detained more than 1,720 people, including minors, during peaceful demonstrations across the country. Dinar Idrisov was arrested while trying to provide legal support for the detainees.
Blog Post May 16, 2017 America, Your Election Is Not Rigged HRF chairman Garry Kasparov originally published this piece in The New York Times. For the last few weeks, the Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, has been talking a lot about how the Nov. 8 election is rigged against him.
Blog Post May 8, 2017 Garry Kasparov – Гарри Каспаров – Banks Not Tanks Russian chess champion and democracy advocate Garry Kasparov reminds us that while Vladimir Putin may seem too dangerous and powerful to confront openly, the West has effective, non-violent weapons at its disposal.
