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The media was locked out yesterday of a torture court case involving Uganda’s Chief of Military Intelligence, Brigadier James Mugira. The order barring the media was issued by Justice Yorakamu Bamwine, who was presiding over a case where the secretary for trade and industry in the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC)- the biggest opposition party Republic of Uganda, has sued Mugira for allegedly being tortured when he was detained by the Joint Anti Terrorism Task force.

Republic of Azerbaijan Human Rights House hosted its ever largest-scale event today.

International organization “Reporters without Borders” published yesterday annual rating of the freedom of press in the world.

Video footage collected from YouTube leaves little doubt that the riots in Kampala last month were met with excessive use of force by the Ugandan police and military forces. An unestablished number of demonstrators and ordinary civilians, most likely in excess of 20, were killed, and many more injured by stray bullets and through heavy baton beatings.

Addressing issues of women economic empowerment and entrepreneurship, the Macedonian Women’s Rights Centre – MWRC – recently organized an event called “Woman Has the Power”. Equal employment opportunities for men and women is an obvious precondition for the empowerment of women, concluded the event.

The Human Rights House Foundation has joined 17 other Norwegian organisations in signing a letter to the Foreign Minister of Norway raising concern over the current situation in Western Sahara. Last week, Moroccan authorities subjected a group of leading Sahrawi human rights activists to serious violations.

As debate continues over the same-sex marriage of two Kenyan men in London, the team writing a new constitution on Sunday ruled out enshrining the rights of homosexuals. The Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review said it had rejected suggestions by British MPs to recognise and protect the rights of homosexuals in the draft.

Article 301 of the Turkish Criminal Code remains a tool to silence critical voices, despite being amended in April 2008 and official reports that charges under this article have decreased. ARTICLE 19 believes it to pose a threat to free expression.

Workshop on employment of persons with disabilities was held on the last day of September in Bjelovar (Croatia), where mr.med.sc. Mirjana Dobranovic, president of the APEO and HSUTI Network, held a lecture on the importance of making the employees particularly, sensitive on the issues of persons with disabilities and their right and capability to work.