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Elmar Huseynov, the well-known journalist and the chief editor of opposition-minded MONITOR journal was killed brutally at the entrance of his apartment on Wednesday at around 9:00 pm. Monitor, is a Russian-language weekly and socio-political magazine and critical of the government.  The attack appears to have well planned and orchestrated. To light at the   entrance of the apartment building was not working, and that several   telephones in the area had been disconnected at the time of the shooting. (4-MAR-2005)

In a letter to president Ilham Aliev the Human Rights House Foundation (HRH) strongly condemns the murder of the chief editor Elmar Huseynov on 2 March 2005 and calls for an impartial investigation. -His death is evidence of the loss of the free media, the human rights defender Novella Jafaroglu said yesterday on the scene of the crime (4-MARCH-05).
 

LONDON/04.03.05/TURAN: “We are profoundly saddened and angered by the murder of Elmar Huseinov” said Agnes Callamard, Executive Director of ARTICLE 19. “He was a man and a journalist of great courage and commitment. Today, the media in the Republic of Azerbaijan has lost an important critical  voice.”  ARTICLE 19 is particularly  concerned with the increasing climate of intolerance against the media, and with the failure of the Republic of Azerbaijan authorities to put an end to these attacks. (4-MAR-2005)
 

The German Evangelical Association Open Church has distinguished Halina Bortnowska-Dabrowska with the Amos Preis award. Bortnowska-Dabrowska is member of the Helsinki Committee in Poland. She was awarded for her long-term struggle for democracy and freedom in the Republic of Poland, commitment in the fight against racism and anti-Semitism, as well as activities in support of the Polish-German reconciliation. (04-MARCH-05)
 

Elmar Huseynov, a prominent journalist and chief editor of the outspoken opposition journal MONITOR, was brutally killed at the entrance of his apartment on Wednesday. Human rights groups and journalists fear he was murdered for his critical articles on government officials and President Aliyevs’ family.(4-MAR-05)
 
 

While Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik warns private investors against getting involved in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), the Norwegian Petroleum Fund, a state entity established and controlled by the Norwegian Parliament, has Total Oil, outed on this website last week as one of the worst blind-eye silent collaborators to the Burmese regime?s gross human rights violations, as its biggest investment. The two biggest opposition parties want Bondevik to stop all co-operation, direct or indirect, with one of the world?s worst regime?s in human rights terms. (3-MAR-05)
  

The world´s largest HR defending organization “Amnesty International” made a statement to the Government of the Russian Federation with an appeal to take urgent measures on suppression of the further infringements of human rights in a context of confrontation in Chechen Republic. They ask to investigate all applications of human rights infringement cases and to give suspected infringements to the court. (02-MAR-05)
 
 

It is now a done deal. A part of the “Marshal Tito” base, which has been planed to be a new university campus with all facilities for better life of students, is cheaply sold to the United States for building the embassy facility. This is the greatest robbery in the history of students in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (02-MAR-05)

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina has decided to support the removal of all mines in populated areas by 2009. Today, the country is one of the world´s most affected. (02-MAR-05)