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-Eritrea’s extensive detention and torture of its citizens and its policy of prolonged military conscription are creating a human rights crisis and prompting increasing numbers of Eritreans to flee the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.

Last week in Zagreb, activists of the Center for Peace Studies (CMS) peacefully demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republic of Croatia against the inertness and intransparency of the government institutions responsible for the asylum issues in the Republic of Croatia.

Дзяржава не збіраецца падпарадкоўвацца абавязку наноў зарэгістраваць добра вядомую праваабарончую арганізацыю. МЗС Беларусі не лічыць пастановы Камітэта ААН абавязковымі для выканання.

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) today welcomes the release of journalist Jama Ayanle Feyte from Bossasso jail after the president of Puntland’s pardon. Bossasso Court convicted Jama Ayanle Feyte for libel and insult of Puntland leaders and dissemination of false information on Somali news websites. Feyte’s original sentence was for two year’s imprisonment.

The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi, Republic of Macedonia continues this year with the activities regarding the Global Action Week Campaign for Education that is internationally organized every year by the Global March against Child Labour. The main objective of the campaign is inclusion of every child in education, and providing literacy for all.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders denounces the incommunicado detention of Mr. Mohamed Al Mahgoub, Director of the North Darfur branch of the Amel Centre for Medical Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture, and request his immediate and unconditional release.

The country is not going to comply with the obligation to re-register the well-known HR organization. The Foreign Ministry of Republic of Belarus does not consider the UN Committee’s decision legally binding.

The Political Repression Victims Rehabilitation Law will be useful for Republic of Belarus not only after a political regime change. The participants of a round table discussion, which took place in the Human Rights House in Vilnius on 10-11 April, believe that such a document even nowadays could improve the HR situation in the country.

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the recent threats made against Slobodan Vaskovic (on right), a journalist from Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (RS), entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Vaskovic received a threatening letter, signed by a group calling itself the Serbian Avengers, following reports about the Serbian Orthodox Church in his publication, Novi Magazin.