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.
Moldova: Deep Structural Human Rights Failures — Real Cases and Hard Evidence The latest Rule of Law Index data reveals a troubling paradox in Moldova. With an overall score of 0.53 and a global ranking of 68th out of 143 countries, the state formally recognizes many fundamental rights and maintains relative public order. Yet behind these figures lies a deeper structural failure: the state remains unable to effectively protect individuals
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
The appeal of the Council of Christian Churches of Ukraine The Council of Christian Churches of Ukraine, whose members are religious associations representing the majority of Christian communities in our country, expresses its profound indignation at yet another instance of the Russian state’s use of religion and religious institutions to justify and sustain its aggressive policies. The immediate impetus for this statement was the “Report of the Foreign Intelligence Service”
Founded during the Cold War, the International Society for Human Rights is still active worldwide today. In the interview, its chairman talks about religious freedom, political prisoners and the Cuban secret service. Edgar Lamm IGFM Mr Lamm, many people are familiar with Amnesty International, but the IGFM is less well known. What kind of organisation is it? The IGFM was founded in 1972 in response to
Estonian independence fighter Mart-Olav Niklus passed away on 25 December 2025 at the age of 91. The ISHR remembers him and his legacy. Obituary for Mart-Olav Niklus Hero of the Estonian independence movement Mart-Olav Niklus was a political prisoner in the former Soviet Union from 1959 to 1966 and from 1981 to 1988. After Estonia gained independence in 1991, he was a member of the Estonian Parliament from
The Ombudsman's Office signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and Partnership between the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, and the Information and Analytical Centre of the International Society for Human Rights (IAC ISHR), which is the national representative of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR, Germany) in Ukraine, represented by its director, Anton Feliksovich Alekseev. The memorandum provides for the development of a long-term partnership in the
Belarus has released 123 political prisoners, including leaders of the 2020 protests. Maria Kolesnikova and other released political prisoners, 13 December 2025 COORDINATION HEADQUARTERS FOR THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Alexander Lukashenko agreed to this as part of an agreement with US President Donald Trump and at his request, "in connection with the lifting of illegal sanctions against the potash industry." Today, a
Russia — helping those driven to complete poverty by state repression In modern Russia, not only critics of the authorities are persecuted, but also those who try to defend them. The story of lawyers Aleksei Liptser, Vadim Kobzev and Igor Sergunin is a vivid example of how far repression can go. All three represented Alexei Navalny until his still-unexplained death in custody. But on 13 October 2023, they themselves became