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A delegation from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court today concluded a two-day visit to the Russian Federation.

Sri Lanka has been home to one of the longest civil wars in recent history, yet this conflict has gone relatively unreported and attacks upon journalists are widespread.

How do literary writers speak truth to power? What can novels, plays and poems say about world politics? Does censorship provoke new forms of creativity? And why is there so little contemporary British literature about political power?

This six-part course, led by Dr Sophie Mayer, will consider some of the best known and most dramatic challenges to free speech: attacks on poems, plays, novels and films.

11-14 марта 2011 года в Белорусском доме прав человека состоится вторая международная конференция проекта “Электронное обучение адвокатов правам человека” для участников из Азербайджана, Беларуси, Грузии и России.

On 11-14 March 2011, the Belarusian HRH will host the second international conference within the framework of the Project “Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers” for project participants from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Russia.

Civil society organisations from around the world, including Article 19, Writers in Prison Committee and Index on Censorship, are calling on Egyptian and international bodies to respect freedom of expression and the right to information.

Fourteen years ago on 5 February 1997 hundreds of Uyghurs were killed or imprisoned after participating in a peaceful demonstration in the city of Ghulja in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China. No-one has been held accountable for the brutal crackdown on the non-violent protest, persecution of Uyghurs continues rebranded as part of the international “war on terror”.

On 31 January 2011 the appellate court in Lublin awarded Mr. Władysław Szczeklik compensation in the amount of 400,000 PLN for wrongful detention awaiting trial (case no. II Aka 337/10). This judgment was the result of an appeal against a decision of the regional court in Lublin of September 22, 2010, in which the court awarded compensation amounting to 200,000 PLN.

On 25 January 2011 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg delivered a judgment in the case Kupczak v. Republic of Poland. According to ECHR Polish authorities by failing to provide necessary medical assistance (no steps were taken in order to fix the morphine pump) violated article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

On 31 January 40 people from different Norwegian human rights organizations and political parties showed for the second time their solidarity with Russian pro-democracy movement “Strategy 31” by gathering in front of the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo.

On October 1st of 2010 the new Criminal Code of Georgia came into effect. One of its main the main new innovations is the Jury Institution. The Jury Court will operate until July 1st of 2013 in Tbilisi only, and will cover cases of deliberate murder under aggravating circumstances. After two years, it will cover all crimes envisaged with the suppression of liberty in the throughout the country. As of yet, the Jury has not heard any cases. It will be able to hear all cases that lie within its jurisdiction only if the defense and prosecution do not oppose it. It should be noted that when Georgia adopted the corresponding amendment to the Georgian Constitution, the Strasbourg Court invalidated the November 16th 2010 jury decision in the Taxquet vs Belgium case and accused the state of Belgium of violating Article 6 of the European Court (the right to a fair trial) and imposed payment of EUR 8,173.22 in favor of the plaintiff.