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Cyber attacks on Pescanik deserve investigation
Recent cyber attacks on Peščanik’s website, disruptions of its broadcasts, and attempts to intimidate its editors, are described by prominent Serbian civil-rights lawyer and activist, Srdja Popovic (on right), in a call for proper investigation.
Human Rights watch releases report on the LRA Christmas massacres
This 67-page report details the brutal slaughter of more than 865 civilians and the abduction of at least 160 children between December 24, 2008, and January 17 in the Haute Uele district of Congo. In some of the most devastating attacks, LRA combatants waited until people had come together for Christmas festivities and then hacked their victims to death with machetes and axes or crushed their skulls with clubs and heavy sticks.
Burundi’s parliament may be in violation of international law if it approves pending criminal code.
–Burundi’s parliament should respect its human rights obligations and reject a pending criminal code revision that would outlaw consensual homosexual conduct–Human Rights Watch
Azerbaijan ratifies OPCAT
On January 28, Republic of Azerbaijan ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT).
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to visit Kenya
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, will undertake a country visit to Republic of Kenya from 16 to 25 February 2009 at the invitation of the Kenyan Government.
Imam in Bosnia sex abuse case found guilty
A Bosnian court has found an Imam (local Islamic priest) guilty of sexually abusing an underage girl and sentenced him to 18 months in prison, in a case that shocked Bosnia and stirred up tensions between local media organizations and the country’s influential Islamic Community. The family of the girl pressed charges against the Imam last year, accusing him of sexually molesting their underage daughter during religion classes.
Ultra-right groups threaten Russian journalists, editors and experts
Deputy Head of human rights research centre receives death threat from neo-Nazi group.
Court lets Karadzic talk to journalist
A judge at the Hague tribunal granted permission last week to former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic to be interviewed by a Dutch reporter from his cell. This is the first time that tribunal allows a defendant to give a media interview.
Recommendations to the state of Macedonia
Regarding upcoming UPR (Universal Periodic Preview) session for the Republic of Macedonia (May 2009), Amnesty International raised concern in its submission, over several human rights issues that this former Yugoslav republic faces with.