Publication Mar 5, 2018 Russians forced to attend Putin’s star-studded election rally Vladimir Putin, flanked by cheering supporters, strode on to a stage in the centre of Moscow’s colossal Luzhniki Stadium and urged a crowd of tens of thousands of flag-waving Russians…
Publication Feb 27, 2018 Russians Commemorate Anniversary of Boris Nemtsov’s Death (Deutsche Welle) – Nemtsov’s murder three years ago outside the Kremlin sent shockwaves across Russia and the world. The Russian politician had built up his profile under President Boris Yeltsin,…
Publication Feb 22, 2018 Russian opposition leader arrested ahead of presidential election (The Independent) – Russia’s opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, said he had been detained by police weeks ahead of a presidential election in which he has been barred from running. Mr…
Media Feb 16, 2018 Hungary’s Orban steps up crackdown on critics before vote (ABC News) – Nearly 30 years after the end of communism, the tightening stranglehold Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his oligarch allies have on key sectors of Hungary’s media has…
Media Feb 16, 2018 Turkey sentences journalists to life in jail over coup attempt (The Guardian) – A Turkish court has sentenced six defendants, including three prominent journalists, to life in prison over allegations of involvement in a 2016 coup attempt, drawing fierce condemnation…
Publication Feb 15, 2018 Navalny Website Blocked In Russia Over ‘Rybkagate’ Report (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – Internet service providers in Russia began blocking access to opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s website on February 15 following an order from the country’s communications regulator,…
Press Release Feb 12, 2018 HRF Mourns the Passing of Leading Pakistani Lawyer Asma Jahangir NEW YORK (February 12, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) mourns the passing of Asma Jahangir, a leading Pakistani lawyer who dedicated her career to defending the rights of…
Publication Feb 7, 2018 Tajik Election Law Changes Seen Favoring President’s Son (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – The lower chamber of Tajikistan’s parliament has approved amendments to the laws on presidential and parliamentary elections — lowering the eligibility age from 35…
Publication Feb 6, 2018 Azerbaijani Opposition Coalition To Boycott Early Election (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – The head of Azerbaijan’s opposition National Council of Democratic Forces says the coalition will boycott an early presidential election that has been scheduled for…
Publication Feb 5, 2018 Azerbaijan Schedules Snap Presidential Election In April (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – Long-ruling President Ilham Aliyev has brought the date of Azerbaijan’s presidential election forward by more than six months, to April 11, in a move…
Media Feb 1, 2018 Asia does not have a single ‘fully democratic’ state In the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2017 Democracy Index, there are 19 “fully democratic” countries in the world. None of them are located in Asia. At best,…
Media Jan 30, 2018 European Court Says Russia Violated Rights Of Bolotnaya Protesters (Radio Free Europe) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russia violated the rights of three men who were jailed in connection with a protest on…
Media Jan 23, 2018 Sweden Wants Answers About Its Seized Citizen. China Isn’t Giving Any. BEIJING — China on Tuesday publicly rebuffed demands by Sweden for information on the fate of a Swedish citizen who was snatched off a train in China by plainclothes officers…
Media Jan 23, 2018 Chechnya’s Dictator, Recently Hit With US Sanctions, Blames NGOs (Gizmodo) – The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, was recently hit with US sanctions over human rights abuses such as his government’s torture and “purge” of…
Media Jan 22, 2018 Russian Court Closes Foundation of Kremlin Critic Aleksei Navalny A Moscow court on Monday ordered the closing of a foundation supporting the activities of Aleksei A. Navalny, the country’s leading opposition politician, moving quickly in a case filed only this month by the Justice Ministry.
Media Jan 17, 2018 Russian human rights group has offices torched after leader’s arrest (The Guardian) – Masked men have torched the offices of a prominent human rights organisation in Ingushetia in southern Russia, days after the head of its operations in neighbouring Chechnya…
News Jan 12, 2018 Azerbaijani Journalist Gets Six-Year Sentence (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced journalist Afqan Muxtarli to six years in prison after convicting him of smuggling and other crimes in a politically…
News Jan 11, 2018 Turkey’s top court rules that two jailed journalists be released (Reuters) – Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that jailed journalists Mehmet Altan and Sahin Alpay be released, saying their rights have been violated, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. There was…
News Jan 10, 2018 Rights Groups Condemn Chechnya Activist’s ‘Abduction’ (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) – Human rights groups in Russia and abroad are condemning the detention of a leading activist in Chechnya on a narcotics charge they contend was fabricated,…
News Jan 9, 2018 Turkmenistan dictator bans black cars because he likes white ones (Times of Malta) – Gurbanguly Berdimukhamedow, the dictator of the oppressive central Asian nation, has decided to ban black cars from the capital city Ashgabat.
