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Democracy prevails in #Moldova! The elections were marked by Russian efforts at vote buying and manipulation, but the country’s democratic institutions held firm—delivering a clear victory for the pro-European Party for Action and Solidarity.
@beritlindeman.bsky.social
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France: New report documents declining freedoms A new report by The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and the Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH) details an alarming deterioration of public freedoms in France. Often...

#France stands out by the scale of the restrictions on civil liberties. A report shows that hostile narratives, administrative dissolutions, reductions in public funding, and the criminalisation of mobilisations are suffocating civil society and endangering civic rights.
@fidh-official.bsky.social

Save the International Criminal Court and the rule of law Reliable sources indicate that the United States (US) plans to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution in the coming weeks. This follows a series of designations, first again...

Together with civil society worldwide, we urgently call on States Parties to the Rome Statute to do everything in their power to stop the proposed U.S. sanctions against the ICC. We need an independent judicial institution with a mandate to confront impunity for the gravest crimes known to humanity.

Journalism in times of war - Anna Politkovskaya Days 2025 Against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing full-scale war against Ukraine, we explore the challenges and responsibilities of journalism in times of conflict, as experienced both by journalists in Ukrain...

Against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing full-scale war against Ukraine, we will explore journalism in times of war and the impact of hybrid operations on Norway and Europe. Join our Anna Politkovskaya Forum, arranged together with @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social and @thebarentsobserver.com

Press freedom organisations and human rights groups call for the release of journalist Furkan Karabay Karabay, who has previously worked as an editor and reporter for news portals outlets such as Gerçek Gündem and 10Haber, has been held in pretrial detention for over 100 days and his indictment was pr...

#Türkiye: Together with @globalfreemedia.bsky.social and 16 human rights organisations, we strongly condemn the elongated pretrial detention of journalist @furkankarabay.bsky.social, who faces a prison sentence of 6 to 15 years for his journalistic commentary. We call for his immediate release‼️

Statement of Georgia’s Human Rights Center and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee On the morning of 27 August, the bank accounts of several prominent Georgian non-governmental organisations were frozen by court order. The Office of the Prosecutor asked for the measure as part of an...

Georgia’s Human Rights Center and the NHC condemn the ongoing campaign against Georgian civil society, which took another turn for the worse with the freezing of the assets of several prominent Georgian foundations and organisations.

For 34 years, Ukraine has stood strong. For over 11 years, it has resisted Russian aggression. And for 3½ years, it has endured a full-scale invasion. Yet the Ukrainian spirit remains unbroken.
We stand with Ukraine.
💙Slava Ukraïni💛

People First - Open letter to President Trump People First! Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights defenders, former political prisoners, appeal to President Trump before meeting Putin

Free people first! – Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, human rights and press freedom defenders, former political prisoners, and families of those still in detention and captivity, appeal to President Trump before the meeting with Putin in Alaska. #People1st
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Türkiye: Norwegian human rights organizations call for the immediate release of Enes Hocaoğulları Enes was arrested on August 5 in Ankara and is being held in pre-trial detention on charges of “publicly disseminating misleading information (article 217/A)” and “publicly denigrating the Turkish nat...

Norwegian human rights organisations call for the immediate release of Enes Hocaoğulları, youth delegate to the Council of Europe @coe.int and LGBTIQ+ human rights defender and urge that the charges against him be dropped without delay❗️
@saih-org.bsky.social
Read the statement here:

LTBTIQ+ activist and Council of Europe Youth Delegate Enes Hocaoğulları was arrested yesterday, 5 August. He spoke out on police violence in #Türkiye at the @coe.int. Telling the truth is not a crime! Enes must be released and all charges dropped immediately!
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Morgengry i Helsingfors Statsledere på begge sider av jernteppet satte sine navn på et dokument i den finske hovedstaden 1. august 1975. Signaturene forplikter fortsatt.

Fifty years ago, 35 state leaders signed the Helsinki Declaration. We must ensure that new generations embrace the principles of human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. @beritlindeman.bsky.social and @norvezhets.bsky.social write about the Helsinki effect in @panoramanyheter.bsky.social (NORW)

📣 We are excited to announce that Ukrainian organizations now can apply for the Nansen program’s small grants “Enable to impact”. This call is administered by Kyiv Human Rights Hub, Center for Civil Liberties and the NHC, with the support of @norad.no
Deadline: August 8
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Mr. Lugovoy is better known for being the main suspect in the 2006 assassination of Aleksandr Litvinenko, who was killed in London with a radioactive isotope administered in a cup of tea.

Duma rep Andrei Lugovoy has sent a letter to Russian Justice Dep to list NHC as an «undesirable organization» after decades of cooperation with dissidents and human rights defenders. We strongly disagree & see this as part of the Kremlin’s campaign against civil society. So far no official response

Amerikanske tilstander Juni er her i all sin regnbueprakt, og som forventet krydres alle flater med hele spekteret av hat og støtteerklæringer til Norges skeive befolkning.

June is here, and SoMe is full of hate or support for the LGBTIQ+ society. This autumn, there are elections in Norway. We ask all parties to contribute to an election free of hate.
@amnestynorge.bsky.social @saih-org.bsky.social @humanrightshouse.bsky.social Rafto
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@aageb.bsky.social has been to the EU Parliament with Corisk to present the latest trends regarding the effects of the sanctions against Russia. The sanctions are working; they are saving Ukrainian lives, but there is still room to make them stronger and more effective‼️

Turkmenistan: Drop New Charges, Release Civic Activist Murat Dushemov Turkmen civil activist and political prisoner Murat Dushemov did not return home after the end of his unjust four-year prison sentence on June 14, 2025. According to information from Turkmen.News, aut...

We call on the authorities in #Turkmenistan to drop the new criminal charges against civic activist Murat Dushemov, apparently in retaliation for his activism, and to release him immediately‼️
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Siarhei Tsikhanouski is free🤍❤️🤍
We are so happy that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya’s husband has been released, along with 13 other political prisoners in Belarus. We will continue the fight for Ales Bialiatski and more than 1400 others!!
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Hjelp oss å dokumentere krigsforbrytelser i Ukraina! Alle pengene går til de som med livet som innsats samler bevis for krigsforbrytelser i Ukraina

Thank you to the Norwegian Judges Association / Dommerforeningen for this crowdfunding initiative to support the NHC’s work to document war crimes in #Ukraine💙💛 Together with local partners such as Truth Hounds, we are committed to securing justice for Ukrainians.
www.spleis.no/project/434836 (NORW)

On February 16 2024, Alexei Navalny was killed in a high-security penal colony. Today, on his birthday, we are remembering a man who gave everything in the fight for justice and freedom in #Russia. We remember Alexei Navalny, and we promise you: We will not give up!!

Kyrgyzstan: End Renewed Crackdown on Independent Kloop Media Platform We, the undersigned human rights organisations, are deeply alarmed by the renewed crackdown on Kloop, a leading independent Kyrgyzstani media platform known for investigating and reporting on corrupti...

Hands off Kloop! We demand that authorities in #Kyrgyzstan halt their ongoing crackdown on media freedom and drop all charges against detained journalists and media workers.
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Request for Norwegian support for the People First campaign An essential aspect of NHC’s extensive work in Ukraine is to support Ukrainian civilians who suffer from the war and its consequences. Civilians in Russian captivity form a particularly vulnerable gro...

It is essential to support Ukrainian civilians who suffer from the war and its consequences, and particular civilians in Russian captivity. We have sent a letter to the Norwegian Prime Minister proposing Norwegian political and diplomatic support to the People First campaign for Ukraine.

What Could a Lasting and Just Peace for Ukraine Look Like? The Trump administration has called for an end to the war in Ukraine. Various proposals for ceasefires and negotiations have been put forward. Yet the interests of the people who have suffered from th...

What could a lasting and just peace for Ukraine look like? Join us on 2 June for a talk with Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk, Center for Civil Liberties, at a breakfast meeting in cooperation with @civita.bsky.social
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Ikke tydelig nok om støtten til menneskerettighetsforsvarere – I en utrygg verden minner jeg om sammenhengen mellom å slutte opp om menneskerettigheter og demokrati, og sikkerhet, slik Helsingforserklæringen slo fast for 50 år siden, sier Berit Lindeman, genera...

🇳🇴 I en utrygg verden minner jeg om sammenhengen mellom å slutte opp om menneskerettigheter og demokrati, og sikkerhet, slik Helsingforserklæringen slo fast for 50 år siden, sier. Menneskerettighetsforsvarere trenger vår støtte!! Les vår kommentar til #revidertbudsjett @beritlindeman.bsky.social

Stand by Grigory Melkonyants We often say that defending human rights is becoming steadily more difficult, that democracy is in decline worldwide, and that the situation is becoming darker by the day. Yet even under this heavy, d...

Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair Golos, was sentenced to five years on charges of ‘organising the activities of an undesirable organisation'. His activities involves election monitoring and fighting for transparency. Russia must stop its crackdown on civil society and release 1000+ political prisoners‼️

Uzbekistan: 20-year anniversary of the Andijan events: time to face up to the past Twenty years after the massacre in Andijan, victims and witnesses remain fearful of speaking out about the events that claimed hundreds of civilian lives, as the authorities continue to suppress the t...

Read our statement on the Andijan tradegy:
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Today, it is 20 years since the #ANDIJAN massacre!
❗Order investigation
❗Release Information
❗Compensate survivors
❗Punish perpetrators
Ensure that it never can happen again‼️
#Usbekistan
📸 The square where the massacre took place

Historic step to create the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine On 9 May 2025, foreign ministers met in Lviv, Ukraine, announcing the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. The Tribunal builds on resolutions by the UN Ge...

The group of 37 countries' position on establishing a special tribunal is historic and essential in holding Russian leaders responsible for the crime of aggression against Ukraine. The NHC calls upon states worldwide to support the tribunal. @beritlindeman.bsky.social @ekelove.bsky.social

Oslo Freedom Forum 2025 Oslo Freedom Forum is a meeting place for the world’s foremost technology entrepreneurs and human rights defenders. Dissidents, activists, leaders, journalists, politicians, entrepreneurs and research...

Imagine a better future built on democracy and human rights. Join @oslofreedomforum.com 2025, a meeting place for human rights defenders and technology entrepreneurs, with speakers from Russia, North Korea, Syria, Sudan, and more. The NHC is one of OFF's long-term partners.
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Report on the right (not) to believe in Türkiye ‘A Human Rights Perspective on the Multi-faceted Right (Not) to Believe in Türkiye’ report offers a comprehensive analysis on the current situation of the freedoms to believe, not to believe, or to be...

Who gets to believe—or not—in Türkiye?
NHC's Freedom of Belief Initiative's report reveals how legal & social barriers limit the right to believe, not to believe, or to adhere to "non-mainstream" doctrines in #Türkiye. #Discrimination persists for those outside the mainstream. #FoRB