My father brought the Internet to Russia when it was still the Soviet Union. Now the authorities threw him to jail. Russia Jails the Father of Russia’s Internet cepa.org/article/russia…

It has been more than six years since my father disappeared. He is now serving 16 years in prison for nothing but being a Uyghur. Days pass, and life goes on for most people. But for me, as a son, time has been frozen since I received his last voicemail. I live in his dreams.

1/4 📢Ilham Tohti, a respected Uyghur scholar, and father of our ally Jewher.Ilham, a leading Uyghur activist herself, has been unjustly imprisoned for the past ten years for his peaceful advocacy. He was sentenced to life despite his efforts to promote understanding and dialogue

In a historic prisoner swap with Western countries, Russia released 16 high-profile political prisoners on Thursday. In the thread below, we’re sharing some of our past coverage of the people involved in the exchange. meduza.io/en/feature/202…

Memorial's statement on the exchange of prisoners. On August 1, we waited with bated breath for news - and now what was very hard to believe has become a reality: the world-famous Russian political prisoners, among them our colleague and fellow Memorial member Oleg Orlov, have

Clearly we have no cause for complacency with the far-right mobilising in the UK, but these front pages all signal that an important narrative shift took place last night. Massive respect to all who turned out.

We're thrilled to announce our six-city tour - "Connecting Communities and Sustaining Uyghur Culture in the Diaspora." starting in Brussels on Sept 1 and ending in Ankara on Sept 15. Join us in Brussels at the Musical Instrument Museum on Sept 1 at 3pm. mim.be/en/activity/mi…

Breaking! We just released a new report with the Yale University Macmillan Center Genocide Studies Program. We examine the mass imprisonment of #uyghurs under China’s legalized authoritarian regime, which will cost conservatively the ethnic group over 4.4 million cumulative years of

🚨🎣New investigation: modern slavery on Scottish fishing boats A BBC investigation released this weekend unveiled the devastating experiences of dozens of workers who may have been trafficked into the UK. The men from the Philippines, Ghana, India, and Sri Lanka were promised

Each day, we’re posting the story of a political prisoner in Russia. Today, we’re telling you about Altan Ochirov, anti-war advocate and a father of two. On April 12, 2022, 42-year-old Altan Ochirov, working for a city administration, was detained at his workplace in the city of

Delighted to speak today SME4Labour Labour Campaign for Human Rights #LabourConference24 fringe event on why the U.K. gov must urgently introduce a Business Human Rights and Environment Act to keep pace with the EU. Alongside Lord Hermer KC, Alex Ballinger MP, Kevin Bonavia MP, Daniel Leader

Today marks 10 years since Uyghur HRD Ilham Tohti was cruelly sentenced to life imprisonment in #China for his peaceful work promoting the rights of the Uyghur minority. I once again call for his immediate release & for China to stop misusing criminal legislation to target HRDs

Each day, we’re posting the story of a political prisoner in Russia. Today, we’re telling you about Dmitry Talantov, a 63-year-old lawyer and human rights defender from Izhevsk, in the Udmurt Republic. He is the president of the regional bar association. In June 2022, a criminal

Thanks to BBC World Service for having me on to explain the prevalence of modern slavery globally. Listen to more through the link below 👇

Fantastic to see strong European Parliament vote--540 supported!--condemning the wrongful detention, calling for the release of #Uyghurs #IlhamTohti and #GushanAbbas. Scathing assessment of #China govt #humanrights record, calls on European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 member states UN Human Rights to step up.

1/ The European Parliament has called for the release of the unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas, as well as all those arbitrarily detained in China. This call is part of a newly adopted resolution, which further states, "they strongly condemn the

2/ Ilham Tohti is a respected Uyghur scholar and the father of our ally Jewher.Ilham. Tohti was sentenced to life in prison despite his peaceful advocacy. Gulshan Abbas, sister of our ally Rushan Abbas, is a retired Uyghur doctor who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a

This is deeply alarming for the freedom of our press and ability to hold the Israeli govt to account for alleged war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law. The British public has a right to know our complicity in this, but Palestinian voices are being silenced

We are posting about small acts of civic resistance in Russia and the political repression that follows. Today, we would like to tell you about people who tried to demonstrate their civic stance despite the fact that all public protests are suppressed by Russian authorities.