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OSCE media freedom watchdog Miklos Haraszti welcomes United Kingdom’s decriminalisation of defamation, urges other states to follow. ‘This is a crucial achievement not only for the country’s own freedom of speech, but a great encouragement to many other nations,’ Haraszti said.

Haidar was arrested by Moroccan authorities at the airport in Laayoune, the capital of her home country Western Sahara, upon her arrival back from the US where she had travelled to receive a human rights award. Her arrest follows a spate of recent arrests and confiscation of the travel documents of several Sahrawi activists by Moroccan authorities.

The Human Rights Committee voiced its concern at the alarming incidence of threats, violent assaults and murders of journalists and human rights defenders in the Russian Federation, in their concluding remarks of the review of the Russian Federation, which were issued on 28 October 2009.

Two of Russia’s most prominent human rights organizations’ work have been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices.

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in FYR Macedonia (HCHR) wrote a public appeal in regards to November 16th, International Day of Tolerance, in which they call for more tolerant Macedonian society.

Human Rights House Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, member of the Human Rights House Network, seeks international support in its fight against continuous oppression of the freedom of expression in the Croatian media, especially its public services.

Omer has reported for numerous international media outlets, including the Washington Report, Inter Press Service, Ny Tid and Morgenbladet, and worked for Norwegian People’s Aid in Gaza; he also founded the Rafah Today blog. The prize by Norwegian PEN was awarded on 16 November at House of Literature, Oslo.

The Fish Elsewhere! campaign has launched a petition which calls on the EU to immediately halt all fishing in the waters of occupied Western Sahara. The current EU fishing offshore occupied Western Sahara – which Morocco occupied in 1975 – is clearly undermining the UN peace efforts, the campaigners say.

9 лістапада скончыўся тэрмін падачы альтэрнатыўных дакладаў па сітуацыі з правамі чалавека ў краіне. Сваё бачанне сітуацыі ў Жэневу даслалі вядучыя беларускія праваабарончыя НГА, а таксама Міжнародная камісія юрыстаў.