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Organisations supporting journalists, writers and publishers in Islamic Republic of Iran on February 17 called on Tehran officials to open the door to the United Nations’ special rapporteurs on human rights – including its expert on freedom of expression Frank la Rue, right.

-What you see now in Islamic Republic of Iran is a government in fear of its own people, says Shirin Ebadi, right, Iranian lawyer and human rights activist. -The Tehran hardliners’ position is weakening by the day. But as the people’s loyalty is diminishing, the violence is escalating fast, added the 2003 Nobel Peace Price laureate when she visited the Human Rights House in Oslo yesterday.

On 14 February in Minsk during a traditional street celebration of Valentine’s Day 20 to 30 people were detained and all who gathered were brutally dispersed by riot police. Thus, Young Front activists and others had to celebrate the All Lovers’ Day in police custody.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), takes note of the announcement of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov’s decision to withdraw the complaints filed against two prominent human rights defenders, but remains concerned about the continuing threats faced by defenders in the Chechen Republic.

Green Action and the members of the Human Rights House Zagreb (B.a.B.e., CMS, Documenta, and GOLJP) organized a fundraising night on Saturday, January 30th 2010, in the premises of the Human Rights House Zagreb, in order provide a donor assistance for the victims in Haiti.

School of Human Rights in FYR Macedonia was held from 12-19 January 2010 in hotel “Granit” in Ohrid. It included 25 high school students aged 16-19 years coming from different cities throughout FYR Macedonia.

Public Webcast Event at Mediacenter Sarajevo

Disinforming public

14 лютага пры правядзенні традыцыйнай акцыі, прысвечанай да дня закаханых, у Мінску было затрымана ад 20 да 30 чалавек, а сама акцыя – жорстка разагнаная. Такім чынам, актывістам моладзевай арганізацыі “Малады фронт” давялося святкаваць Дзень святога Валянціна ў аддзяленнях міліцыі.

At 03.30 AM last Thursday in Zagreb, Republic of Croatia, around 100 riot police officers arrested 23 activists from “Green Action” and “Right to the City”. The raid took place just hours after 4000 people turned out in snowy conditions to protest against turning part of the pedestrian zone into a ramp for an underground garage planned as part of the Floral Square (Cvjetni trg) and as part of luxury flat complexes that are developing in the old part of Zagreb.

This week Belarusian State University was accepted into the European University Association. It happened despite systematic violations of academic freedoms and regular instances of politically motivated student expulsions in this institution of higher education.