Human Rights Watch

Sharipov has been detained since 28 January 2020 and faces up to five years in prison if convicted. He has often criticised the government and reported on sensitive topics.

Guterres’ low-key approach to human rights may have been calculated to avoid conflicts with big powers like the United States, Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. But human rights groups and former senior UN officials have criticised it for being ineffectual.

Police in southern Russia raided the homes and office of activists who provide legal and psychological assistance to survivors of domestic violence.

Sudan’s rulers have agreed to cooperate with the International Criminal Court to bring former leader Omar al-Bashir to justice.

“There is every reason to believe that Chechen authorities are behind this vile attack,” said Human Rights Watch. “For more than a decade, they have been wielding a war on human rights defenders, jailing them, destroying their offices, and forcing them to leave Chechnya.”

According to Human Rights Watch, there is an alarming trend of activists, artists, and journalists being jailed for voicing their political opinions online.

The International Court of Justice unanimously orders measures to prevent genocide based on a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar.

Taras Ibragimov is just one of the Ukrainian journalists whom the Russian authorities have banned from entering Crimea. Barring independent reporters from the peninsula is, in part, an attempt to stop the flow of news about Russia’s crackdown on Crimean Tatar activists.