We, 13 Russian and international human rights organizations, express outrage at the vicious attack on an independent journalist and a human rights lawyer on their way to attending a court hearing in ...

Europe’s leading human rights body decided Wednesday not to remove a Chechen member of its Russian dissident advisory panel ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe says it has confirmed “very serious human rights violations” in the southern Russian republic of Chechnya. The allegations include ...

The government of Kremlin-backed Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, who has said women should "know their place," has set up an official council to advocate for women's concerns. The initial appointees ...

Moscow — An award-winning Russian investigative journalist is in hospital after being badly beaten by armed assailants during a trip to Chechnya, the Memorial human rights group said on Tuesday.

The United States and 15 other members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) invoked a rarely used diplomatic maneuver to trigger an investigation into reported human ...

Today, a group of armed thugs in Chechnya’s capital, Grozny, attacked Elena Milashina, a prominent journalist and a recipient of Human Right Watch’s award for extraordinary activism, and Alexander ...

Ramzan Kadyrov and Magomed Daudov. From Ramzan Kadyrov's Instagram. "The whole world knows Ramzan Kadyrov as an effective and decisive defender of human rights, who supports all human rights-oriented ...

On the morning of July 15, 2009, the prominent activist and investigator for the Memorial human rights group Natalya Estemirova was abducted from her home in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s North ...