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Has Cuba moved away from the policies of the old regime? The three-year prison sentence imposed on Habana Press director and independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet on 12 May 2009 suggests Raúl Castro is following in his brother’s footsteps.

Aliaksandr Lukashenka formulated his own concepts of democracy and human rights.

The human rights and humanitarian situation in the Republic of Somalia continues to be of utmost concern, says the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders project, notably as a result of recent attempts by the new interim government, established under the 2008 UN-brokered Djibouti peace agreements, to put an end to the Al-Shabab Islamic militia insurgency.

The unprecedented mass protests in Moldova last month would not have happened without Twitter. Natalia Morar should know: she was one of the activists who made it happen

The former Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, right, has been in custody for more than 100 days now in Gisenyi, Rwanda. Meanwhile, his family and lawyers say they have had no contact with him since his arrest on Rwandan soil on January 22.

Civic Committee for Human Rights (GOLJP) and Documenta protest against planned location for realization of the concert of the Croatian singer Thompson (on right), who is known for his ultranationalistic hate-speeches and songs. The concert is planned to be organized at the main square in Zagreb, which GOLJP and Documenta find inadequate.

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Over 30 organisations of the Human Rights House Network have published a letter of concern calling on the Belarusian authorities to hold a fair trial of Leanid Svetsik, a human rights defender from Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus.

Аляксандр Лукашэнка сфармуляваў уласнае стаўленне да дэмакратыі і правоў чалавека.