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The Azerbaijani blogger and youth activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was released Monday, one year after he was imprisoned on political grounds.

29 траўня суд прызнаў былога палітвязня Парфянкова вінаватым у парушэнні ўмоваў прэвентыўнага нагляду. Парфянкова пакаралі арыштам на 6 месяцаў.

Russian radio journalist Sergei Aslanian was brutally attacked in Moscow near his apartment last week. The attack could be linked to the controversial statements he made about Prophet Muhammad.

The Public Hearing on the Human Rights Situation in the Peasant Communities of Bajo Aguán, Honduras, was convened by nine organisations and international networks that in recent years have been monitoring the human rights situation in Honduras and in particular that of the peasant communities in the Bajo Aguán region. This monitoring effort has been carried out in coordination with local organisations.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) held its 4th General Assembly in Tokyo, Japan, from May 14 to 17, attended by more than 120 Uyghur delegates from 20 countries around the world. During the assembly Uyghur democracy leader and the 2004 Rafto Prize laureate Ms. Rebiya Kadeer was re-elected WUC President.

Met with those fighting for human rights in Azerbaijan. Loreen did see an Azerbaijan far beyond the glittery front.

Mehman Aliyev, director of Turan news agency, received the Human Rights House Network Award 2012.

Monday the 21st of May, the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest artist Loreen met with local human rights defenders in Baku, Azerbaijan.

In May 2012 on the HFHR’s premises the meeting was hosted with Liubov Kovalyova, mother of Vladislav Kovalyov, a man sentenced to death for his alleged complicity in carrying out a bomb attack at a Minsk metro station on 11 April 2011. The sister of the executed Belarusian also took part in the meeting. Valdislav Kovalyov’s mother and sister still don’t know when the execution was carried out and where their son and brother was buried. Under the Belarusian law such information is not to be revealed.

Urgent call for immediate and unconditional release and for lifting the ungrounded travel ban of Belarusian human rights defender Aleh Volchak

The Foundation appealed to the Mayor of Śródmieście District in respect of the recent decision of the Board of Śródmieście District, Warsaw made during the latest edition of the “Premises for Culture” initiative. Fourteen applications were submitted in response to the lease offer for the premises situated at Grzybowski Square in Warsaw. Only four organisations satisfied formal requirements: Good Karma Association, Shalom Foundation, Stanisław Brzozowski Association and Adam Smith Center.

Leyla Zana, the 1994 Rafto Prize Laureate, well-known Kurdish politician and respected human rights defender of Kurds in Turkey, was recently sentenced to ten years in prison by the 5th High Criminal Court.