Feb 24, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line
24 February 2025, GENEVA – As Russia’s aggression against Ukraine enters its fourth year today, and discussions intensify about settling the war without Ukraine’s participation, UN experts* demand accountability and warn that without guarantees for human rights and...
Oct 22, 2024 | News, Statements
22 October 2024, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* are urgently seeking confirmation of reports of the death of Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist and human rights defender who has been forcibly disappeared since early August 2023 while reporting in...
Mar 28, 2024 | Statements, Top-line
GENEVA (28 March 2024) – UN experts* today condemned the continued arbitrary detention of Evan Gershkovich, a 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter and US-citizen who has been held without evidence for a year. “Russian authorities have yet to provide any credible...
Feb 16, 2024 | Statements, Top-line
16 February 2024 – UN experts* today called on the Russian Federation to swiftly investigate reports of the unexpected death in custody of prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny while serving a 19-year prison sentence, following his arbitrary arrest in 2021 and...
Jan 27, 2023 | News, Top-line
GENEVA (27 January 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm over the escalating crackdown against civil society by Russian authorities after the decision by the Moscow city court this week to liquidate Moscow Helsinki Group, a prominent human rights organisation....
