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Burma Military regime arrested 5 student leaders including the country’s second most prominent leader, Min Ko Naing. The arrest took place as the UN Security Council met to discuss Burma for the first time in history on Friday, 29 September. Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe were arrested by Special Police Force on 27 September as they prepared to attend the 18th anniversary of the founding of the National League for Democracy, the political party led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi that won 82% of the seats in parliament in Burma’s last democratic election. (8-OCT-2006)

A Joint Statement on the recent arrest of 88 Generation Students Group leaders was issued on 3th October by Burmese democratic forces in Norway. The statement was signed by 6 Burmese exile groups and calls for an immediate release of political prisoners, a meaningful dialogue between all concerned parties and a a lift of all suppressive measurements. (8-OCT-2006)

Burma Military regime arrested 5 student leaders including the country’s second most prominent leader, Min Ko Naing. The arrest took place as the UN Security Council met to discuss Burma for the first time in history on Friday, 29 September. Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe were arrested by Special Police Force on 27 September as they prepared to attend the 18th anniversary of the founding of the National League for Democracy, the political party led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi that won 82% of the seats in parliament in Burma’s last democratic election. (8-OCT-2006)
 

Fresh figures from the Norwegian Red Cross unveil that Kurds, together with Pakistanis, top the statistics for forced marriages in Norway. In an open meeting to take place at the Human Rights House in Oslo on Tuesday, the Norwegian Council for the Rights of the Kurds’s (RKR) women’s issues group wishes to address this, informs RKR’s administrator Liv Kjølseth, right. (07-OCT-06)
  

A joint project of three Polish non-governmental organizations was launched on 4 October entitled “Civil Monitoring of Candidates for Judges”. The program’s objective is to enable the civil society’s participation in a debate regarding candidates for the positions of judges at courts and tribunals of the highest instance. (06-OCT-06)

The conditions in which the Belarusian prisoners are kept have always disturbed the human rights activists. However, it is almost impossible to conduct a qualified monitoring of this issue because of the unwillingness of the authorities to open penitentiary institutions to the public. On September 27, 2006 Belarusian human rights defenders addressed the OSCE office Ambassador with a letter, expressing their deep concern about the fate of young political prisoners Artur Finkevich and Zmitser Dashkevich. (05-OCT-06)
 

This morning 2003 Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi visited the Human Rights House in Oslo. Ebadi is in Oslo to open the film festival Film fra Sør which this year focuses on Islamic Republic of Iran. Almost 40 Iranian movies will be shown, some of which are forbidden in Islamic Republic of Iran itself. During her visit, Ebadi gave her view on the question how the West can change the human rights situation in Islamic Republic of Iran. (05-OCT-06)
 

The conditions in which the Belarusian prisoners are kept have always disturbed the human rights activists. However, it is almost impossible to conduct a qualified monitoring of this issue because of the unwillingness of the authorities to open penitentiary institutions to the public. On September 27, 2006 Belarusian human rights defenders addressed the OSCE office Ambassador with a letter, expressing their deep concern about the fate of young political prisoners Artur Finkevich and Zmitser Dashkevich. (05-OCT-06)
 

Manfred Nowak, right, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment issued the following statement today: As the Special Rapporteur announced on 6 July 2006 and reiterated in his statement to the Human Rights Council on 20 September 2006, he was invited by the Government of the Russian Federation to carry out a fact-finding visit from 9 to 20 October 2006, with a particular focus on the North Caucasus Republics of the Chechen Republic, Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria. (04-OCT-06)