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У Мінску арыштаваныя праваабаронцы
23 сакавіка ў Мінску былі затрыманыя праваабаронцы, што ладзілі акцыю супраць прымянення смяротнага пакарання ў краіне. Пасля затрымання супрацоўнікамі службы бяспекі прэзідэнта, яны былі дастаўленыя ў аддзяленне міліцыі, дзе будуць чакаць суда па артыкуле 23.34 КаАП – “парушэнне правілаў правядзення масавых мерапрыемстваў”. Ноч да суду праваабаронцы Алесь Бяляцкі, Валянцін Стэфановіч і Ірына Тоўсцік правядуць у Цэнтры ізаляцыі правапарушальнікаў.
Amnesty International Norway calls China to follow Google
Amnesty International Norway calls the Chinese government to remove restrictions on the internet following Google’s decision to stop censoring internet search results in the People´s Republic of China and direct users to the Hong Kong version of the website.
Burma: 2010 elections may bring no change
The Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities (MDREN) released a document, signed also by Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party analyzing Burma’s upcoming 2010 election and giving possible solutions. According to it, election will not bring democracy, security, or national reconciliation to the country. The reason is undemocratic 2008 Constitution.
Discrimination and segregation of Roma pupils in Croatian schools
The European Court of Human Rights ruled last week that the segregation of Roma in primary schools in Medjimurje, Republic of Croatia, was discriminatory. Fifteen Croatian nationals of Roma origin had complained to the Court in Strasbourg that they had been segregated at their primary schools because they belong to the Roma ethnicity.
First national children’s conference held in Skopje
The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi organized the First National Children’s Conference for Child Participation on the 16th of March 2010, Tuesday, at the Youth Cultural Center, Cinema “Frosina”. The conference was a part of the project Building a Culture of Child Participation, financed by the European Union, and co-financed by UNICEF.
Norwegian Helsinki Committee condemns raids against independent media in Belarus
On the Day of Solidarity in the Republic of Belarus, 16 March 2010, searches were carried out in the offices of the web-site charter97.org and in the office of the independent newspaper “Narodnaya Volya”. The journalist Natalya Radzina was beaten during the raid.
ARTICLE 19 is concerned about ongoing prosecution of independent newspaper staff in Dagestan
ARTICLE 19 expresses its concerns about the ongoing trial of several staff of Dagestani independent weekly newspaper “Chernovik” and calls on the Government of the Russian Federation to abide by international and regional standards for freedom of expression.
Burma releases US citizen
A Burmese-born 41-year-old US citizen, political activist, who was sentenced in February 2010 to three years in prison with hard labour, has been released on 18 March 2010 by a Rangoon court.
“Смерць напярэдадні вясны”
17 сакавіка ў беларускім Доме правоў чалавека прайшоў паказ дакументальнай стужкі, прысвечанай гадавіне смерці Яны Паляковай, беларускай праваабаронцы. У прадстаўленым фільме, акрамя трагічнай гісторыі самагубства маладой жанчыны, яго аўтар задаецца больш шырокім пытаннем: хто такія беларускія праваабаронцы і з якімі праблемамі яны сутыкаюцца, працуючы на Беларусі?