Press Release Sep 28, 2018 #ErdoganOut: HRF ad campaign condemns Erdogan during UNGA HRF Ad Campaign Condemns Erdogan during UNGA NEW YORK (September 28, 2018) — This week Turkey’s authoritarian president Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited New York City to attend the United Nations…
Press Release Aug 8, 2018 Belarus Detains 18 Journalists in Raids at Independent Outlets MOSCOW — The authorities in Belarus have detained at least 18 journalists, accusing them of unlawfully obtaining information from a state news agency, local news reports said on Wednesday, raising…
Media Jun 25, 2018 Turkey’s Erdogan wins sweeping new powers after election victory (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan won sweeping new executive powers on Monday after his victory in landmark elections that also saw his Islamist-rooted AK Party and its nationalist allies…
Publication Jun 22, 2018 Turkey’s master campaigner, Erdogan faces biggest election challenge (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan won sweeping new executive powers on Monday after his victory in landmark elections that also saw his Islamist-rooted AK Party and its nationalist allies…
Press Release Jun 20, 2018 Turkey Must Drop Terrorism Charges Against Father of NBA Player Enes Kanter NEW YORK (June 20, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) calls on the government of Turkey to drop the terrorism charges against Dr. Mehmet Kanter, the father of NBA…
Media Jun 11, 2018 EU, West urge Maldives to hold credible, transparent presidential poll (Reuters) – The European Union and some Western nations on Friday urged the Maldives to hold a credible and transparent presidential poll, after police executing a court order disrupted an…
Media Jun 6, 2018 Another win for Erdogan is no longer a foregone conclusion (The Washington Post) –With his growing authoritarianism, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seemed unassailable a few months ago when he decided to advance presidential and parliamentary elections by more than…
Press Release May 29, 2018 PutinCon Speaker Arkady Babchenko Falsely Reported Assassinated in Kiev Update: The Ukrainian secret police has reported that Arkady is alive and this was part of an operation to uncover a web of agents operating sub rosa in Ukraine. Even…
Media May 23, 2018 Aides Jailed For Anti-Putin Protests As Navalny Appeal Rejected (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – A Moscow court has ordered the press secretary of jailed opposition politician and anticorruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny to be jailed for 25 days over…
Media May 7, 2018 Putin Starts Fourth Presidential Term (NPR) – Russian President Vladimir Putin took the oath of office for a fourth term as president – solidifying his place as the country’s longest-serving leader since Communist dictator Josef…
Publication May 7, 2018 Turkey’s main opposition candidate demands more media coverage (Reuters)–The presidential candidate for Turkey’s main opposition has hit out at a lack of mainstream media coverage for opposition parties and candidates before elections in June. Muharrem Ince, the main…
Media Apr 26, 2018 Turkish court sentences journalists to years in prison for ‘terrorism’ charges (CNN) – A Turkish court has sentenced 14 employees of a newspaper that has been critical of President Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s government to prison, convicting them on ‘terrorism’ charges. The…
Media Apr 18, 2018 Turkey to hold snap elections on 24 June, says Erdoğan (The Guardian) – The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has announced snap elections on 24 June, more than a year earlier than planned, saying the country urgently needed to make…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 A Hopeful Moment for Uzbekistan (The New York Times) – It is a measure of how repressive Uzbekistan was under its first post-Soviet president, Islam Karimov, that the first, tentative steps by his successor to…
Media Apr 16, 2018 Moscow Court Blocks Telegram (Bloomberg) – A Moscow court ordered telecommunications companies to block Telegram in Russia after the chat app refused to grant intelligence authorities access to users’ encrypted messages, in a blow…
Press Release Apr 12, 2018 Azerbaijan’s Aliyev Secures a Fourth Term in Rigged Elections NEW YORK (April 12, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the reelection of authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev in rigged elections held yesterday in Azerbaijan. The country’s Central Election…
Media Apr 6, 2018 ‘We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets’ Amid the recriminations over the Sergei Skprial poisoning, questions have been raised about how the UK government deals with Russia. Is expelling diplomats enough? Or would clamping down on the…
Publication Apr 2, 2018 As Authoritarianism Spreads, Uzbekistan Goes the Other Way (The New York Times)– Unraveling a police state is never easy, and just how fraught the process can be has been playing out in a basement cell in Uzbekistan, a…
Publication Mar 27, 2018 China and Russia accused of waging ‘war on human rights’ at UN China and Russia are leading a stealthy and increasingly successful effort at the United Nations to weaken UN efforts to protect human rights around the world, according to diplomats and…
