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A group of Azerbaijani human rights defenders have appealed to a number of international bodies and influential human rights groups, including Human Rights House Foundation (HRH) to help secure the release of convicted oppositionists. “An unfair sentence was handed down on the convicted opposition leaders, who were charged with organizing disorders during the presidential elections on October 15-16, 2003,” the human rights groups underlined in their appeal. (29 OCT 2004)

A group of Azerbaijani human rights defenders have appealed to a number of international bodies and influential human rights groups, including Human Rights House Foundation (HRH) to help secure the release of convicted oppositionists. “An unfair sentence was handed down on the convicted opposition leaders, who were charged with organizing disorders during the presidential elections on October 15-16, 2003,” the human rights groups underlined in their appeal. (29 OCT 2004)

There are already three persons on hunger strike in the Republic of Belarus. All three cases are connected to the Parliamentary election. The first hunger strike was started by the chief editor of “Mestnaya Gazeta” newspaper Andrey Shantarovich. He believes the newspaper was suspended for political reasons so that it couldn’t elucidate the electoral process. (4-NOV-2004)

Today experts from the UN Human Rights Committee are going through Poland´s periodic report on the realization of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In their prepared counter-reports, non-government organizations reproached the government first and foremost for discontinuing cases concerning beating up by the police, the reproductive policy, which brought wretched results, as well as homophobia. (28-OCT-04)

The sentencing of seven Azeri opposition leaders caps the government´s record of serious human rights violations, flowing from riots over the contentious 2003 presidential election, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The seven Azeri opposition leaders are widely considered political prisoners. (28-OCT-2004)

The sentencing of seven Azeri opposition leaders caps the government´s record of serious human rights violations, flowing from riots over the contentious 2003 presidential election, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday. The seven Azeri opposition leaders are widely considered political prisoners. (28-OCT-2004)

The International League for Human Rights (ILHR), a non-governmental human rights organization based in New York and in special consultative status with UN ECOSOC, expresses serious concern about the recent detention of religious freedom activist and imam of the Muslim community in Baku Ilgar Ibrahimoglu, who also serves as a director of Center for Defense of Freedom of Conscience and Belief in the Republic of Azerbaijan. (28-OCT-2004)

The International League for Human Rights (ILHR), a non-governmental human rights organization based in New York and in special consultative status with UN ECOSOC, expresses serious concern about the recent detention of religious freedom activist and imam of the Muslim community in Baku Ilgar Ibrahimoglu, who also serves as a director of Center for Defense of Freedom of Conscience and Belief in the Republic of Azerbaijan. (28-OCT-2004)

Statement “Human rights defenders need stronger international support and protection” is now available also in Bosnian language. (27-10-04)