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The Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) is seriously concerned about the alleged threats and beating by Azeri police last Saturday of Emin Huseynov, right, a well-known human rights defender. The gross violations followed in the wake of the police´s breaking up of a marking of Che Guevara´s 80th birthday in the Alaturka Cafe in Baku. (16-JUNE-08)
 

Wednesday 11 June the Belarusian Association of Journalists finally received the draft bill on mass media. BAJ is dissatisfied with numerous elements including re-registration of journalists and the regulation of publications of the Internet. The authorities want to get the bill passed by Parliament as soon as possible, but BAJ reminds them to their promise to discuss it with civil society and European experts. (15-JUNE-08)
 

Wednesday 11 June the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) finally received the draft bill on mass media. BAJ is dissatisfied with numerous elements including re-registration of journalists and the regulation of publications of the Internet. The authorities want to get the bill passed by Parliament as soon as possible, but BAJ reminds them to their promise to discuss it with civil society and European experts.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, the Civil Development Forum Foundation and the research and advisory firm Komitywa.com. have jointly prepared a report on the usefulness of Polish courts’ websites for citizens. The authors of this report write: ‘If someone wishes to see what Poland’s Internet looked like ten years ago, he/she can easily move back in time by browsing through the internet news bulletins of Polish courts’.(13-JUN-08)

Nasteh Dahir Farah, 28, right, Vice President of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), was assassinated on Saturday, 7 June 2008, in Kismayu, Southern Republic of Somalia. The Somali journalists community condemned the assassination, and received immediate moral support from throughout Eastern Africa. (13-JUNE-08)
 

HRHF is concerned about the detention of the Institute for Reporters´ Freedom and Safety’s  Chairman, Emin Huseynov today, 12th of June. The Institute for Reporters´ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) reports that Emin Huseynov was detained in front of Azerbaijan´s Presidential Administration building while filming a picket held by students. (12-JUN-08)

On the 9th of June officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs accompanied by the National Security Service personnel raided the Norwegian Helsinki Committee’s office in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. -We consider this action a clear violation of international norms, says Bjørn Engesland , right, Secretary General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (9-JUNE-08).
 

HRHF is concerned about the detention of the Institute for Reporters´ Freedom and Safety’s  Chairman, Emin Huseynov today, 12th of June. The Institute for Reporters´ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) reports that Emin Huseynov was detained in front of Azerbaijan´s Presidential Administration building while filming a picket held by students. (12-JUN-08)

A Kurdish boy, believed to be 16 or 17 years old, was executed in Islamic Republic of Iran on Tuesday. Mohammad Hassanzadeh was hanged in Sanandaj prison following his conviction for the murder, when aged about 15, of another boy, then aged 10. A 60-year-old man, Rahim Pashabadi, also convicted of murder, was executed alongside him. Amnesty International condemned the execution. (11-JUNE-08)