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Azerbaijani newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev, 33, is serving an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence based on trumped up charges of terrorism and defamation. He was jailed in April 2007 after writing a series of articles critical of the authorities.

Беларускі дом правоў чалавека запрашае на прэзентацыю новага дакументальнага фільма Віктара Корзуна “ЭПОХА БАРАДУЛІНА”.

Initiative meeting of NGOs in BiH for CERD up-coming session

When: Thursday, 3. June 2010 08.30-13.00 To: Thursday, 3. June 2010 Where: Oslo, Literature House, Wergelandsveien 29, Host: Norwegian Helsnki Committee Program[1]    08.30 Registration and coffee    09.00  Welcome. Recognition and remembrance of the   Srebrenica genocide in Norway Bjørn Engesland, Secretary-   General, Norwegian Helsinki Committee    09.10 Opening   State Secretary Gry Larsen, Norwegian Ministry […]

Following our year-long campaign for greater freedom of expression in Cuba, English PEN is proud to be launching a briefing paper on Cuba for journalists and other literary professionals. The document introduces some of the key issues surrounding free expression on the island, and presents facts often missed in political and travel journalism about the island.

An early February morning in 2003, the apartment of the family Al-Arian stormed by the FBI. Shocked family members, as father, Sami, being led away in handcuffs by armed U.S. law enforcement. In 12 hours crawled the tens of FBI agents, the family’s apartmen. Private papers, diaries, letters, books, photo albums, CDs and video tapes were seized. That evening news programs showed the whole world a news conference from Washington, where former Attorney General John Ashcroft said that they had arrested one of the main men behind a global terrorist cell in Tampa, Florida.

Секретариат Международной сети домов прав человека – Фонд домов прав человека – начинает набор белорусских адвокатов/юристов в группу по изучению международного права прав человека в рамках программы “Международное право в правозащитной деятельности”.

The role of civil society in offering protection and services to refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons.

English PEN, Index on Censorship are proud to present EPIC SHORT FILMS at the Free Word Centre, these events explore censorship and freedom of expression in independent filmmaking.