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Dissident Yu Jie is ignoring threats of prison to publish a book describing Premier Wen Jiabao as “China’s best actor”. The 36-year-old Chinese dissident and writer is about to risk his freedom by publishing an explosive new title outing China’s cuddly premier, Wen Jiabao, as an authoritarian hard-liner behind the scenes.

Элла Памфилова комментировать свое решение отказывается. Российские правозащитники надеются, что ее отставка не будет принята.

Ella Pamfilova has refused to comment her decision to leave the post of the head of the Presidential Council on Human Rights. Human rights defenders hope her resignation will not be accepted.

Sidi Mohammed Daddach, a Sahrawi political activist, former political prisoner and the 2002 Rafto Prize laureate, calls on UN and EU to supervise the human rights situation in Western Sahara. He also calls on the embassies of European countries to visit Western Sahara to see the real situation for Sahrawis, who are oppressed by the Moroccan regime.

According to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) the Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei is in the Republic of Turkey. According to some reports Mohammad Mostafaei might be applying for asylum. Unable to arrest Mohammad Mostafaei, Iranian officials detained his wife, brother-in-law, who remain in detention without charges.

Staff reporter of DOSH magazine Malika Betieva came to a tragic end along with her family members in the Chechen Republic as a result of a road traffic accident on a track Grozny-Shatoy.

The plaque’s open ceremony in honor of Larisa Geniush, the famous Belarusian poetess, did not take place in Vaukavysk, Republic of Belarus. The plaque disappeared from the wall of private house. Local historian Mikalai Kavalchuk has hung up the plaque. He was arrested and was released from the police station only in three hours.

У Ваўкавыску не адбылося адкрыцця памятнай шыльды, прысвечанай вядомай беларускай паэтцы Ларысе Геніюш. Шыльда знікла са сцяны прыватнага дому на вуліцы Перамогі, 40. Мясцовы краязнаўца Мікалай Кавальчук, які павесіў шыльду, быў затрыманы. Яго выпусцілі з пастарунку толькі праз тры гадзіны.

Uladzimir Niapomniaschykh, democratic activist, was arrested in Homel, Republic of Belarus. Police didn’t like an inscription on his T-shirt “For Republic of Belarus without Lukashenka”. Authorities for propaganda in the country usually use a similar slogan (“For Belarus”).