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Publications
This report provides an analysis of Kazakhstan's implementation of the European Parliament Resolution of 14 March 2019 on the human rights situation in the country (2019/2610(RSP).
Despite the fact that we do not deal directly with issues related to religious freedom, we consider it to be one of the fundamental human rights. That is why we supported activists from non-governmental organisations, associated in the American group called International Religious Freedom (IRF) Roundtable, which sent a letter…
This report examines the cases of 56 victims of politically motivated criminal prosecutions in Kazakhstan. Among them, at least 16 are political prisoners who remain in prisons or pre-trial detention facilities.
Zhanara Akhmetova is a Kazakhstani journalist, one of the leaders of the opposition movement "Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan" (DCK). For several years, Akhmetova and her minor son have been unsuccessfully seeking refugee status and, through this, political asylum in Ukraine.
In case of the extradition of Akhmetova, Ukraine would violate several ratified international conventions. For the new government, this case would become one of the first serious exams in the observation of the rights of refugees and extradition procedures. Will the new authorities of Ukraine pass the test in the…
The Democratic Party of Moldova came to power in the Republic of Moldova for the first time in 2013. Over 6 years, the party and its leader Vladimir Plahotniuc managed to establish control over the key state bodies and to usurp power in the state. On 8 June 2019 a…
On October 1, 2019, at Kazakhstan’s mutual assistance request, Belgian police conducted a warrantless search (sic!) of Kazakh political refugee and lawyer, Botagoz Jardemalie’s apartment in Brussels. The officials seized numerous electronic devices and documents, which included privileged and confidential work relating to her advocacy as a human rights lawyer.…
In the present document, the Open Dialogue Foundation, the Italian Federation for Human Rights, the Arrested Lawyers Initiative, the Human Rights Defenders e.V. and the Kharkiv Institute for Social Research attempt to fill the gaps in the PACE report and propose recommendations with respect to impro
Ukraine
- ODF among signatories of petition to prevent the restoration of Russia’s right to participate in PACE
- PACE side-event invitation: “Post-elections scenarios in Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan”
- Observation mission: human rights in Ukraine – the situation with anti-corruption activists in Kryvyi Rih
- PACE Members: Sanctions must be maintained and “Magnitsky laws” applied in response to human rights violations in Russian-Federation-occupied Crimea
- Ukrainian Migration Service denies asylum to victims of political persecution Zhanara Akhmetova and Ardak Ashim
- While the PiS are fighting the «Banderites», Putin is rubbing his hands with glee
- Statement of the Human Rights Agenda platform on deprivation of attorneys of the ability to cooperate with human rights organisations
- Russia: Stop the prosecution of lawyers and human rights defenders
- Appeal by the Civil Society Organizations regarding an arbitrary blockade of Ukraine’s access to the Sea of Azov by the Russian Federation and the capture of 23 Ukrainian servicemen
Russia
- ODF among signatories of petition to prevent the restoration of Russia’s right to participate in PACE
- PACE Members: Sanctions must be maintained and “Magnitsky laws” applied in response to human rights violations in Russian-Federation-occupied Crimea
- “MEPs call for EU Magnitsky Act to impose sanctions on human rights abusers”
- Russia: Stop the prosecution of lawyers and human rights defenders
- Open letter from non-governmental organizations in support of a targeted, global EU human rights sanctions regime
- The European Magnitsky Act as a way to counter impunity for human rights violations in the world
- Appeal by the Civil Society Organizations regarding an arbitrary blockade of Ukraine’s access to the Sea of Azov by the Russian Federation and the capture of 23 Ukrainian servicemen
- Statement of NGOs from different countries regarding the possible election of a Russian representative as a President of Interpol
- #SaveCouncilOfEurope campaign success. Sanctions on Russia to be maintained
Kazakhstan
- Unprecedented and unacceptable cooperation between Belgian authorities and Kazakhstan’s authoritarian regime
- Strengthened China-Kazakhstan Relations: What Impact on Human Rights?
- List of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other politically prosecuted persons (updated)
- Iskander Yerimbetov’s health now critical in detention facility
- Servants of the Regime: Who Prosecutes Peaceful Protesters in Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan After the 6th of July 2019: Authorities Persecute and Imprison the Participants of Peaceful Protests
- Election in Kazakhstan: Gross falsifications and mass arrests of peaceful protesters
- PACE side-event invitation: “Post-elections scenarios in Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan”
- Presidential elections in Kazakhstan: a simulated handover of power in a void of political competition
Interpol
- The protection of political refugees and illegal extraditions: discussion in Kyiv
- They’ve Come For You: Misuse of Extradition Procedures and Interstate Legal Assistance
- ODF organises two side-events at OSCE HDIM 2019
- They’ve come for you. Misuse of extradition procedures, unlawful expulsions and kidnappings of victims politically motivated prosecution
- ODF’s Interpol research as leading source for the European Parliament’s Human Rights Subcommittee (DROI)
- Statement of NGOs from different countries regarding the possible election of a Russian representative as a President of Interpol
- Statement of the Open Dialog Foundation of 15 June 2018 with regard to the defamation campaign against the Foundation
- ODF participates in Brussels debate on human rights in China and INTERPOL
- Human rights in China and INTERPOL: ODF participates in Brussels debate
Human rights
- The Open Dialogue Foundation supports the adoption of Australian legislation comparable to the Global Magnitsky Act
- “Are there any threats to Ukraine from China and how can they be minimised?” – discussion in Kyiv
- Strengthened China-Kazakhstan Relations: What Impact on Human Rights?
- List of Kazakhstani political prisoners and other politically prosecuted persons (updated)
- ODF, CCL & FIDU at PACE: strengthening international human rights mechanisms
- Open Dialogue Foundation at the OSCE HDIM 2019
- HDIM 2019: ODF and FIDU held an event on the influence of China’s repression techniques in the OSCE area
- ODF organises two side-events at OSCE HDIM 2019
- Mukhtar Dzhakishev sentenced to slow death in captivity (STATEMENT)