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Image: National General Meeting of Tibetan delegates 
Copyright: tibet.no
HRH Oslo

Tibetan delegates gathered in India for the first National meeting

In the Indian city Dharamshala his Holiness the Dalai Lama addressed on 30 August 2010 the delegates of the first National General Meeting, underlining the need for unity and a robust democratic administration in exile to keep alive the hopes and aspirations of Tibetans living inside Tibet. 05 Sep 2010 »

Image: Aleh Byabenin 
Copyright: epochtimes.com.ua
HRH London

Belarus: suspicious ‘suicide’ of human rights activist and Charter97 founder

Aleh Byabenin, right, one of Belarus’s leading journalists and human rights activists, and among the founders and leaders of charter97.org website, has found dead in his summer cottage not far from Minsk. Contrary to suggestions that Byabenin must have committed suicide, no suicide note was found and no other possible indicators suggest the same. 05 Sep 2010 »

Image: Rebiya Kadeer 
Copyright: rafto.no
HRH Bergen

Rebiya Kadeer – five years of freedom

Rebiya Kadeer, the most well-known spokesperson for China’s ethnic Uyghur minority and the 2004 Rafto Prize laureate, has used her five years of freedom since her release from the Chinese prison in 2005 to raise the issue of the repression Uyghurs face and their struggle for human rights. She was recently banned from entering Taiwan for three years. 05 Sep 2010 »

Image: Yevgeniy Zhovtis 
Copyright: gdb.rferl.org
HRH Oslo

Kazakhstani HR defender receives the 2010 Sakharov Award

Secretary General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Bjørn Engesland, presented on 27 August 2010 the award to Evgeniy Zhovtis, right, in the prison in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan, where Mr. Zhovtis is currently being held. Together with his organization, the Kazakhstan International Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, Evgeny Zhovtis has been one of the most significant human rights defenders in Kazakhstan for two decades. 30 Aug 2010 »

Image: Barkhat Awale 
Copyright: cpj.org
HRH Bergen

Somali journalist killed in Mogadishu fighting

Veteran radio journalist Barkhat Awale, right, was killed by crossfire on 24 August in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports. He is the second journalist killed on duty in Somalia this year. The security situation worsens in Mogadishu as a result of a major offensive launched on 23 August by the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab. 29 Aug 2010 »

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