News from Activists

Artist Sasha Skochilenko sentenced to 7 years in prison for anti-war stickers On November 16, 2023, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Sasha Skochilenko, accused of spreading false ...

Maksym Butkevych is missing The founder of the ZMINA Human Rights Centre, Ukrainian journalist and military man of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Maksym Butkevych, has disappeared in Russian captivity. ...

The website of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe published a declaration by PACE members condemning the regime ruling in Moldova The declaration refers to the disregard by ...

Ukraine: making the „unimaginable tangible“ through „Voices of War“ - in the spirit of IGFM The project of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group „Voices of War“ has been close ...

The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human ...

OHCHR: Report on the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine (1 February – 31 July 2023) This thirty-sixth report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the ...

ISHR team set up three computer labs One of the most important priorities of our team is to provide children with the opportunity to receive a quality and comfortable education ...

Dmitry Muratov declared a foreign agent In early September 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation declared Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov a foreign agent. Later, Dmitry Muratov ...

Important news for Ukrainians abroad: EU extends temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees in the European Union until March 2025 Temporary protection status entitles Ukrainians to reside in the EU, get ...

Before the eyes of the international public, dictator Aliyev attacks the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh with military strikes. Videos from the capital Stepanakert show artillery strikes, drones and gunfire as ...

The Moscow City Court has decided to liquidate the Sakharov Centre at the suit of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, the press service of the Moscow courts ...

Lithuania refused to grant political asylum to the head of the Belarusian Centre for Civil Initiatives "Our House," Olga Karach. This was reported by "Meduza" with reference to Karach herself. ...

The flow of Ukrainian refugees into Europe at the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion revealed the EU's capacity to take in large numbers of refugees and also showed the benefits ...

There are more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine who have been granted temporary protection status in EU countries. The number of fugitives from war increased by almost 46,000 in ...

More than 1,400 political prisoners are being held in Belarus - including candidates in the 2020 presidential election According to human rights activists, three years after the presidential elections in ...

The International Peace Bureau(IPB) Has Announced its Intention to Nominate Three Remarkable Organizations with a Focus on the Right to Conscientious Objection for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Berlin, Germany ...