Two years after the death of Alexei Navalny, ISHR warns of ongoing repression against his former lawyers. The seriously ill Aleksei Liptser has been transferred, after months of prison transports across Siberia, to a remote penal colony. ISHR demands his immediate release, access to independent doctors, and the dropping of all fabricated charges.
The image depicts the founder of Polymarket, Shayne Coplan, as a modern Julius Caesar, symbolizing centralized power over markets where life-and-death outcomes are decided, while faceless bettors represent anonymity and the absence of accountability. Together, they mirror the logic of the Roman arena: authority sets the rules, the crowd delivers the verdict and those whose lives are at stake remain unseen. Someone Already Bet on Your Life
4 Years of Russia’s Unprovoked War of Aggression Against Ukraine The EU must confront the “end of the values-based world order” far more decisively on its own continent. Everyone understands that the EU’s Zeitenwende cannot be carried out as swiftly or sharply as the decision-making of a one-man rule in a single country. But the fact that, after four years, in the largest country in Europe, the Russian army
Cubans as cannon fodder Not only North Koreans and Africans, but also thousands of Cubans are fighting for money on Russia's side in Ukraine BY MICHAEL LEH Cuban exile Carolina Barrero. Photo: Michael Leh Russia has additionally recruited thousands of mercenaries from Cuba to fight against the Ukrainians. This is detailed in the report “Cubans on the Front Lines in Ukraine” by Cuban art historian and human rights
Crimea. Peninsula of fear Russia continues to persecute Crimean Tatars – Appaz Kurtamet is the youngest Crimean Tatar political prisoner and is being held in Siberia BY MICHAEL LEH At the press conference of the Society for Threatened Peoples in Berlin (from left): Elvis Colpuh, Aishe Kurtamet, and Sarah Reinke. - Photo: Michael Leh The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has reported in Berlin on the ongoing persecution
Berlin, September 2025 “Untouchable and vulnerable” The preservation of human dignity was the focus of the international congress of the Catholic solidarity campaign “Renovabis” for the people of Eastern Europe. Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk gave a moving speech BY MICHAEL LEH Human dignity was the focus of the three-day International Renovabis Congress held in Berlin from September 9 to 11. Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk
Since the violent suppression of the protests in Karakalpakstan/Uzbekistan in early July 2022, pressure on independent media workers has increased dramatically. Free, independent and critical reporting from Uzbekistan is no longer possible. Hopes for democratic change following the death of the dictatorial ruler Islam Karimov in 2016 have not been fulfilled.
The image was generated with the help of artificial intelligence. As the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR ) publishes its harrowing documentary ‘The Impact of Armed Conflict and Occupation on Children's Rights in Ukraine (24 February 2022 - 31 December 2024)’, the Trump administration under Elon Musk cancels a major Yale University programme to prosecute Putin's war crimes against 20,000 abducted Ukrainian
Belarus. 10 years imprisonment for the 60-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. phil. Ales Bialiatski. Ales Bialiatski, Dec. 2014, CC BY-SA 3.0 pl His last words in court:“This civil war must end! I hope you will hear me" The International Society for Human Rights urges the EU to intensify support for the Belarusian democracy movement. This is not only necessary for moral reasons, but also strengthens the negotiating
Россияне идите на улицы, а не на войну - RussInnen geht auf die Straßen und nicht in den Krieg - Russians take to the streets, not to war.
