Defying international human rights law, Poland carried out unlawful pushbacks of refugees on its border with Belarus, Amnesty has claimed. Its tough stance, however, appears to be popular. Poland carried out an unlawful pushback of a group of...
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The oldest human rights group in Belarus is facing closure as the country’s authorities step up their crackdown on civil society. The Belarusian Justice Ministry...
The governments of Hungary and Azerbaijan have been implicated in the alleged hacking of phones belonging to investigative journalists and opposition-affiliated...
Human rights groups have condemned a new round of arrests in Belarus targeting civil society organisations. Belarusian authorities carried out a day of massive...
A long campaign by Roma women in Czechia who were forcibly sterilised appears to be finally coming to a successful conclusion. The lower house of the Czech parliament...
Governments across the world have used the Covid-19 pandemic as a smokescreen for power grabs, clampdowns on freedoms and a pretext to ignore human rights obligations...
Dozens of Armenians remain in Azerbaijani captivity following the recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, with Baku refusing to recognise them as prisoners of war. The...
Just days after a carefully staged-managed All-Belarusian People’s Assembly, convened as a show of support for the country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus has...
Amid new arrests of peaceful demonstrators in Belarus, Amnesty International claims that the pursuit of justice in the country is “hopeless”. A new report by...
A new wave of protests sweeps Poland as the country’s strict new abortion laws come into effect. Human rights groups have condemned new laws in Poland which...
Just as Poland calls for the protection of free speech, three Polish women face trial – and the risk of up to two years in prison – for blasphemy. A court in...
A lack of long-term solutions and safe routes to Europe has once again created a humanitarian crisis on the EU’s borders. A number of leading human rights...
