Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Persecution of Yunus Abdullayev, a Russian Muslim By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (29.01.2026) – President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the foundations of the Russian...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Religious repression denounced at the annual OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw Statement of SOVA Center at the 2015 OSCE “Warsaw Human Dimension Meeting” attended by dozens of NGOs and the country delegations of the 57 Participating States. HRWF...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
Photo: SOVA’s Olga Sibireva. From Twitter. RUSSIA: Liquidating the SOVA Center: the official end of religious freedom in Russia By destroying the leading organization monitoring religious liberty violations, the Putin regime can no longer pretend that relics of...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest April 16 – 30 Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) is calling upon the European Union and the European Parliament to condemn the decision of a Russian court to liquidate SOVA Center, the last source of...
Human Rights in the World
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation filed a lawsuit for the liquidation of the SOVA Center* Human Rights Without Frontiers calls upon the international community to stand up for SOVA Center and the long-time human rights defender Alexander Verkhovsky,...
