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The Azerbaijani authorities ignore pressure from the international community. Most recently, few days after the visit to Republic of Azerbaijan of United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the editor Eynulla Fatullaeyv has been sentenced to 2,5 years imprisonment despite appeals from the United Nations and the Council of Europe.

Doctor Unni Krishnan Karunakara has been chosen to lead the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) over the next three years. He was elected on June 29 in Geneva. He takes over from Dr. Christophe Fournier. According to new president, MSF will remain relevant for the survival of large numbers of people, if the it manages to constantly adapt to new realities.

Yurii Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev are charged with “inciting hatred or enmity” and “denigration of human dignity” for organizing a contemporary art exhibition at the Sakharov Museum in Moscow in 2007 and are facing three years’ imprisonment.

Such calls may soon appear on Belarusians websites. There was a criminal case initiated after a libel comment on the local website in Vileika town, near Maladzechna (Belarus). Users who had left their comments to the news on the site are prosecuted for aspersion and insulting. Corresponding authorities are now trying to identify these people. This is the second attempt of the authorities to punish for incorrect comments in the web during recent time.

New York, July 6, 2010 “The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s decision by Azerbaijan’s Garadagh District Court in Baku to sentence imprisoned independent editor Eynulla Fatullayev to two and a half years in a strict-regime prison after finding him guilty of drug possession.

The NGO coalition of Freedom House, Global Witness, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Eurasian Democracy Initiative is organising a lunch time event in the vicinity of the OSCE PA meeting in Oslo this Thursday.

After the recent execution of four Kurdish political prisoners on charges of moharabeh’ (enmity against God), human rights organisation Article 19 is very concerned that the execution of Zeinab Jalalian and 15 other Kurdish political prisoners convicted of the same charge is imminent.

Kidnapping of journalists is a continuing practice and killing of journalists increased by 26 percent in 2009, outlined Frank La Rue, United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression. He added that any violation of the right to freedom of opinion and expression precipitates a domino effect, impacting upon a multitude of other rights and obligations.

When: Tuesday, 6. July 2010 To: Sunday, 15. August 2010 Where: Вильнюс, Latako 3 Host: Белорусский дом прав человека Contact: Анна Герасимова (

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HRH Sarajevo meets TRIAL

In the days of 10-11 June 2010 a two-day training for lawyers on the application of the European Convention of Human Rights in the proceedings before national courts and European Court of Human Rights took place in the premises of the District Chamber of Legal Advisers in Warsaw. The seminar was the last one of the set of training courses organized by the National Chamber of Legal Advisers and Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.