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Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrest of Tibetan writer Kunga Tseyang on 17 March 2009, and the re-arrest of Jigme Gyatso, a monk who helped Dhondup Wangchen make “Leaving fear behind,” a 2008 documentary featuring interviews with more than 100 Tibetans, including monks and elderly people.

The Ugandan army’s sudden withdrawal from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, after three months of a futile effort to capture rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, has caused panic across northern Republic of Uganda. Many in northern Republic of Uganda who have been enjoying more than two years of peace after two decades of war, fear that the Ugandan military’s failure to capture Kony has opened the door for his army’s return. Right, Lt. Col. Felix Kulayigye, spokesman of the Ugandan Army.

Maxim Zolotarev, an editor with the independent Molva Yuzhnoye Podmoskovye newspaper, was attacked with pepper spray and then beaten with clubs as he left for work at about 12:30 p.m. on March 12. The unknown attackers fled in a Mitsubishi sedan.

CURE Foundation from Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly from Republic of Srpska organized brunch with journalists last week in HRH Sarajevo, on the topic: “Blind and Persons with Impaired Vision in the Media Mirror”.

Official institutions of Republic of Belarus hold on to their selective understanding of freedom of speech. Independent newspapers face discrimination throughout Republic of Belarus, the last week bringing new facts from Hlybokaje and Babrujsk. As well as Slonim, where the authorities force common people to pay for the official local print, should or should they not want to read it.

Дзяржаўныя структуры ў розных канцах Беларусі з зайздросным пастаянствам дыскрымінуюць недзяржаўную прэсу на карысць афіцыйнае. На гэтым тыдні з чарговымі актамі ўціску сутыкнулася вольнае слова ў Глыбокім і Бабруйску. У Слоніме ж улада прымушае насельніцтва з уласнай кішэні ўтрымліваць афіцыёзную “раёнку”.

While renegade leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, top the list of Ugandans due for trial at the International Criminal Court, ICC, some suggest that the ICC needs to look more closely at Uganda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

In a fresh statement on the referendum over consitutional amendments in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee addresses the state coercion to make people vote, the absence of a meaningful public debate, and ultimately, given the rushed advance procedures, of the legality of the referendum. read the full stement below.

The Norwegian Burma Committee is one among more than 150 exile and solidarity groups for Burma now participating and supporting a worldwide campaign urging the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make it a personal priority to secure the release of all political prisoners in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar).