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HRHF and NHC concerned over repeated harrasment of HR defender Svetsik
KGB 220050, MinskProspekt Nesavisimosti 17Tel +375 17-2199299e-mail: info@kgb.gov.by Copy to: Prosecutor’s Office of VitebskVitebsk region210601, ul Zestkova, 14а, Vitebsk, Теl./Fax:+375 212 47-73-27+375 212 47-64-44 The General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of BelarusMr Vasilevich G.A.220050 Internacionalnaja 22, MinskTel. +375 17 2264360 +375 17 2264358 The Ministry of Internal AffairsMr Naumov V.V.220050 Ul. Gorodskoj Val, 2Fax […]
Northern Ugandan women’s open letter to Museveni and Kony
Open letter to President Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda and General Joseph Kony, Leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Dear Excellency, President Museveni and General Kony, We, the women from the Greater North of Uganda, national and international women’s organizations welcome your efforts for peace, in particular your engagement in the most […]
Use of force against demonstrators condemned
On 14 February the opposition youth movement Young Front organised its traditional St. Valentine’s rally. This year, hundreds of activists from Belarus’s Young Front movement and other youth organizations gathered on Minsk’s Yakub Kolas Square on Saturday afternoon. Despite the fact that the gathering was peaceful, the police and Special Forces from the Ministry of the […]
Belarus: Violation of freedom of assembly and use of force against peaceful demonstrators
The use of force and violence against peaceful demonstrators and the severe restrictions on freedom of assembly in the Republic of Belarus are condemned.
United Kingdom: Travel ban on Dutch MP
The travel ban for Dutch politician Geert Wilders is rejected by ARTICLE 19 that considers the ban to go against European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). “the democratic values of “pluralism, tolerance and broadmindedness” that underpin the system of the ECHR involve the protection of expression even when it is offensive, shocking or disturbing.”
United Kingdom: The Satanic Verses still have something to say
Twenty years on from the fatwa, the threat to freedom of expression and artistic freedom remains. The current campaign at the UN over defamation of religion is in essence an effort to legislate an international blasphemy law.
Government needs to abide by commitments
Statement on Nasha Viasna registration On 26 January 2009 the Nasha Viasna human rights organization applied for registration to the Ministry of Justice of Belarus. The decision by the Supreme Court of Belarus on 28 January 2003 to liquidate the human rights center Viasna was an outrage against the freedom of association, guaranteed by the […]
Belarus: Concerns with the Conscription of Civil and Political Activists
he numerous cases in the Republic of Belarus where youth activists, previously declared unfit for military service, are nevertheless conscripted in retaliation for their civic or political activism causes concern.
Azerbaijan: Libel case against Human Rights Defender Leyla Yunus
A protest is lodged against the libel case the Ministry of Interior has brought against the internationally renowned Human Rights defender Leyla Yunus.