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Belarusian State University political science program alumni consider the expulsion of a Young Front press-secretary Tatsiana Shaputska (on picture right) “a dirty stain on the image of Law Faculty of BSU. The student was thrown out after participation in the Eastern Partnership forum outside Belarus” without asking a required permission to leave the country from the deans.

Following the election of Republic of Kazakhstan to chair the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Norway set up an embassy in Kazakh capital of Astana. -It is important that Norway takes on Kazakhstan’s human rights abuses,” said the leader of the Oslo Center and former foreign minister Kjell Magne Bondevik.

Based on two years of research across 176 countries, this online resource maps civil defamation across the world. In this unique mapping exercise, ARTICLE 19 charts cases and the damages awarded and demonstrates how civil cases can be just as limiting to free expression as criminal defamation cases.

HRHF has received a link to a an in-depth news item that was shown recently on Al-Jazeera, and has since been made available on YouTube. The reportage was made clandestinely by journalists entering the country as tourists, and shooting the entire film on the most primitive equipment, including their own cell phones. Click on the link below and watch the film.

One year after receiving the Rafto Prize, pastor Bulambo Lembelembe Josué, right, is still fighting to establish a dialogue between the rebel soldiers, government and international forces, and civilians in the Congolese Kivu region.

Azeri human rights defenders gathered for an advance celebration of the International Human Rights Day at the Human Rights House Republic of Azerbaijan today. Representatives of OSCE, Council of Europe, and the embassies of Norway and UK attended the event to show their solidarity and support and congratulate the defenders.

Прызначэнне Алега Праляскоўскага міністрам інфармацыі светлых перспектыў свабоды слова не абяцае. Каментуе старшыня Асацыяцыі журналістаў Беларусі Жанна Літвіна і аналітык Аляксандр Класкоўскі.

Kyaw Zaw Lwin (a.k.a. Nyi Nyi Aung), right, a political prisoner in Burma’s notorious Insein Prison, is currently on hunger strike. 40-year-old Lwan, who was born in Burma but is a naturalized US citizen, is protesting his loss even of ordinary prisoner’s rights.

Macedonian Women’s Right Center – MWRC – took part in the conference organized by UNIFEM’s Regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe in the end of November in Sarajevo. The aim of the conference was to improve the effectiveness and accountability when assisting in protection of victims of domestic violence in Central and Eastern Europe.