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‘It is a timely reminder that the junta intensifies its crackdown on activists before the planned sham election in 2010’, – says Inger Lise Husøy, Director of Norwegian Burma Committee. The report describes the repression, intimidation and harsh prison sentences Burma’s monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007.

У Берасці адбыўся ўстаноўчы сход праваабарончага грамадскага аб’яднання “Берасцейская вясна”. Ён быў патрэбен для чарговай спробы зарэгістраваць аб’яднанне.

It was another mission within the project “Election Observation: Theory and Practice”. This time students of EHU and other Lithuanian higher schools, as well as members of Belarusian and Swedish NGOs were accredited as international observers at Parliamentary Election in Norway on 14 September. After observing polls in Eastern Europe, some participants were impressed by the “nearly perfect” Norwegian style of elections. Still, some things remain to be improved.

Адбылася яшчэ адна місія ў рамах праекту “Назіранне за выбарамі: тэорыя і практыка”. Гэтым разам – у Нарвегіі, дзе 14 верасня выбіралі парламент, а студэнты ЕГУ і іншых ВНУ Літвы, прадстаўнікі беларускіх і шведскіх грамадскіх арганізацыяў былі акрэдытаваныя ў якасці міжнародных назіральнікаў. Пасля досведу назірання ва Ўсходняй Еўропе, нарвежскія выбары здаліся ўдзельнікам “амаль дасканалымі”. Але ёсць што папраўляць і там.

During the Communist rule in the Republic of Poland, an administrative mechanism of property acquisition was put in place. It allowed the state to take over private properties located in the areas designated for construction of public roads without any particular statutory or contractual basis. In law, private owners still retained the title to such properties yet in fact the land was held by the state.

After nearly two years of trial the Tweraneho Listeners Club trial has today finally been dismissed marking a positive step for freedom of expression and the media in the Republic of Uganda in what many have described as a politicised case.

As a result of a founding congress of the Brest Viasna human rights organization on 18 September, the NGO members arrived at a decision to apply for state registration for the fifth time. However, some of the activists say the application is likely to be turned down again.

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) releases a new report today on the general state of freedom of expression in Somaliland. The report also includes a number of unexposed cases of violations of media freedom.

Ahead of the global climate change summit in New York, 169 organisations, including the Norwegian Tibet Committee, appealed to the UN Secretary General on the issue of Tibet. They asked Ban Ki-moon to pressurise the Chinese President Hu Jintao to protect the occupied province from having its climate polluted and the Tibetan nomads from being evicted by force from their original areas.