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The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi asked for accountability from the inter-municipal Center for Social Welfare (CSW) in Skopje, regarding the last case of pedophilia, where the father raped his two juvenile daughters.

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns the recent verbal accusations levelled against the news agency Makfax by a state official in FYR Macedonia.

У Вільні адбылася прэзентацыя дакументальна-публіцыстычнага фільму Вольгі Мікалайчык “Вызваленне”.

Самагубства Яны Паляковай пасля нечакана жорсткага прысуду і здзекаў у афіцыйным друку – ганьба для сістэмы. Так мяркуе беларуская незалежная супольнасць праваабаронцаў і журналістаў. Пракуратура ў крымінальнай справе адмовіла.

The activist from Salihorsk Yana Paliakova committed suicide after an unexpectedly tough court sentence and a humiliating libel in official press. The prosecutor’s office found no reason to initiate poroceedings.

Regional branch of Russia’s Union of Journalists initiated picket in the support of the journalist Vadim Rogozhin who was attempted on the March, the 5th.

Sahrawi refugees started arriving in Algeria in the mid-seventies. UNHCR has been providing assistance to this group since the influx into the Tindouf area in 1975-76 while WFP has been providing food assistance since 1986. The refugees have been living in four desolate camps in south-west Algeria since the mid-seventies, when a dispute arose between Morocco and the Frente Polisario over the status of Western Sahara.

The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of International PEN is seriously concerned about the detention of Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang, a Tibetan internet writer, who has reportedly been held without charge since 26 February 2009. The WiPC fears that Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang may be held for his online writings, and if so, calls for his immediate and unconditional release in accordance with Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the People´s Republic of China is a signatory.

Andrzej Poczobut (Andrei Pachobut) of Polish “Gazeta Wyborcza” was fined by court in Hrodna for reporting on the meeting of the Union of Poles in the Republic of Belarus. Two weeks ago he was denied the press accreditation.