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December 4, 2003

Youth in Bosnia and Hercegovina learn about human rights

One of the six organisations in the Human Rights House in Sarajevo, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Hercegovina (HCHR BH), has organised its ninth intensive course in human rights for youth in Sarajevo. The course had 18 participants, all young students from the whole of Bosnia and Hercegovina.(05-DEC-03)
 

December 4, 2003

Azerbaijani human rights defender jailed

A rigged trial has sentenced Ilgar Ibragimoglu (see story below, 2-DEC-03) to three months´ imprisonment, says Forum 18. Authorities are investigating him for organising the post-election demonstrations, although the court was “given proof that Ibragimoglu had not taken part in any public disorder and clashes with the police,”a spokesman of DEVAMM says. (4-DEC-03)
 

December 4, 2003

Azerbaijan seminar invitation ready

The invitation to the Oslo seminar on the recent decline in human rights standards in the Republic of Azerbaijan and the international community´s chances of reversing the accelerating growth in democratic defecit was released last night. Click the headline, above, and read the full invitation, in Norwegian. (4-DEC-03)
 

December 3, 2003

NGOs still raising voice for Khodorkovsky

Russian NGOs do not agree with the president Putin´s decision to stop the “hysteria about YUKOS”, the oil giant. Its former leader Mikhail Khodorkovsky is still in prison and accused in several crimes. Human rights activists deeply concerned with the Russian state power turning back to repressive methods of ruling the country. Some even call Khodorkovsky´s arrest the “start of the fight with civil society” in the Russian Federation. (03-DEC-03)
 

December 3, 2003

Situation stabilises for Lebanese human rights defender

Samira Trad, a visitor of the Human Rights House in Oslo early September, has asked Amnesty International to call off its Holiday Card campaign on her behalf. Trad, Director of the Beirut based Frontiers Centre, has been in the minds of human rights defenders all over the world since her September arrest. (3-DEC-03)
    

December 2, 2003

Azerbaijan: Famous human rights defender detained

The leading Muslim religious freedom activist, Imam Ilgar Ibragimoglu, Chief Coordinator of the Center for Freedom of Conscience and Religion (DEVAMM) and General Secretary of the Azarbaijani branch of the International Religious Liberty Association, was detained last night and is being held incommunicado for further investigation. (2-DEC-03)
 

December 1, 2003

Fresh pictures document police violence in Azerbaijan

HRH has received pictures from the 16 October post-election clashes between demonstrators and police at the so-called Freedom Square in the capital Baku. The pictures leave little doubt about the use of violence by both sides. Approximately 600 demonstrators were arrested. More than a hunded of those have yet to be released. Reports of torture of detainees have been confirmed by CoE and OSCE. To see the pictures, click the headline above. (1-DEC-03)
    

November 27, 2003

Women join forces to eliminate violence

From November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10, the International Human Rights´ Day, Zena Zenama organises a number of different activities against male violence. This problem is bigger than people think, says Jadranka Milisevic of Zena Zenama.(27-NOV-03)
 

November 24, 2003

Deputy minister to speak at Azerbaijan seminar in Oslo

The Norwegian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kim Traavik has agreed to speak at HRH´s seminar on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The seminar comes as HRH´s response to the protests, mass arrests and Azerbaijani authorities´ use of torture after the mid-October elections. (24-NOV-03)