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   Home [english] Region Europe & Central Asia RussiaRussia bans the oldest    
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   Russia bans the oldest worldwide human rights movement   
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   03/12/2025PRESS RELEASERussia   
   Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP   
   The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), one of the world’s    
   oldest human rights movements comprising of 196 civil society    
   organizations, has been declared “undesirable” by the Russian Federation.    
   The undersigned FIDH member organizations strongly condemn this    
   designation, which bans FIDH from undertaking any activities in Russia    
   and criminalises any cooperation with the Federation by a Russian    
   national or organization.   
      
   Paris 3 December 2025. The designation was made by the Prosecutor General    
   of Russia on 13 November, and on 1 December, Russia’s Ministry of Justice    
   included FIDH in its register of “undesirable organizations”, which    
   currently contains 281 entities.   
      
   “This ignoble move not only further threatens and endangers our Russian    
   members, partners, their staff, and ordinary Russian citizens supporting    
   our human rights work. It also sends a clear message that Russia is no    
   friend of the global human rights movement.” said Alexis Deswaef, FIDH    
   President “This designation of FIDH as an ‘undesirable organization’    
   demonstrates the importance of our commitment to supporting those who    
   defend human rights, whether in Russia or in exile. FIDH will continue to    
   pursue this commitment more than ever.”   
      
   “We are not surprised by the designation,” remarked Ilya Nuzov, Head of    
   FIDH’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Desk, “FIDH has repeatedly    
   denounced Russia, which has assembled and applied an arsenal of    
   repressive measures that have been gradually used to destroy its vibrant    
   civil society, among others by restricting its ability to cooperate with    
   international partners. In the end, it is ordinary Russians who now    
   remain without any protection from government overreach and abuse.”   
      
   Founded in 1922, FIDH has undertaken activities to further human rights    
   in Russia with its local members since the 1990s. While the reasons for    
   the designation are not specified, FIDH has been particularly critical of    
   systemic impunity for grave violations of human rights and international    
   humanitarian law Russia has committed both domestically and abroad,    
   including in Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine. It has tracked and    
   consistently challenged Russia’s crackdown on freedoms of expression,    
   assembly and association and discriminatory persecution of vulnerable    
   groups, like women and minorities.   
      
   Under the “undesirable organisations” law, adopted in 2015 and further    
   tightened in 2021 and 2024, the Prosecutor General’s Office has the power    
   to declare as “undesirable” any foreign or international organisation    
   that is deemed “a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order    
   of the Russian Federation, the defense capability of the country or the    
   security of the state”.   
      
   Concretely, “undesirable organisations” are banned from engaging in any    
   activities inside Russia, including the publication or dissemination of    
   any information, carrying out financial transactions, and providing    
   financial or other assistance to local organisations and individuals. The    
   “participation in the activities” of an “undesirable” organisation is    
   subject to administrative and criminal liability, including up to four    
   years of imprisonment. Any Russian citizen or organisation cooperating    
   with an “undesirable organisation”, even if residing outside Russia,    
   faces administrative penalties and, in the case of individuals, criminal    
   liability. In practice, the vague wording of the law has led to the    
   punishment of individuals simply for reposting information disseminated    
   by an “undesirable organisation” on social media platforms, even if the    
   original posts predated the organisation’s designation as “undesirable”.   
      
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