Latest

The Russian human rights community expresses anxiety on the proposed amendments of the “spying” articles in the Russian Criminal Code. In their opinion, the sum of the amendments adds up to a return to Stalin’s times, when anybody who dared criticize the authorities could be labeled “a spy” and brought to prison, often never to be seen again.

A newspaper columnist was found guilty of slander against Macedonian Premier Nikola Gruevski for comments made last year refering to Gruevski’s role in the controversial privatization of oil refinery OKTA in the late 1990s, a court said on Monday.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of ACAT, FIDH, OMCT, Global Witness and Frontline, strongly condemn the closing by Iranian authorities of the offices of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, led by Iran’s Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi yesterday.

‘Batko’ Vlaholic’s name was synonymous with terror in Grbavica in 1992, but years on, he apparently remains a free man. The name Veselin Vlahovic “Batko” continues to inspire fear among those who endured terror in the Sarajevo district of Grbavica during the war years. None of the arrest warrants issued so far have led to his actual arrest.

“The Security Council today voiced support for the joint military operation launched by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Republic of Uganda and Southern Republic of the Sudan to flush out the Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) from a remote national park in north-eastern DRC, a Senior United Nations envoy said.

The only radio station in an Islamist-controlled town in southern Republic of Somalia was shuttered by militants in a raid last week, according to the station’s director.

Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand, right, founder of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, allegedly suffered a heart attack on 17 December. Amnesty International believes Kabudvand is not receiving adequate medical care for his serious health condition in the Iranian Evin Prison.

“They are ghosts behind trees. You don’t see them until they come up behind you.” Sitting in the afternoon sun of a dusty courtyard in this overgrown African village, now Southern Sudan’s capital, a veteran humanitarian worker explained how the roughly 1,000 insurgents belonging to the Lord’s Resistance Army, right, – the LRA – continue to defy four states and keep millions in distress in east central Africa.

The fourth attempt of the For Freedom movement, headed by former presidential candidate Alyaksandr Milinkevich, to register was crowned with success. On 17 December the organization received its registration certificate.