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У фестывалі сваю творчасць прэзентуюць музыкі і гурты з Літвы ды Беларусі, якія бралі ўдзел у ранейшых канцэртах салідарнасці. На суд грамадскасці будзе прадстаўленая агульная кружэлка ўсіх выканаўцаў „169 км” (усяго-ткі такая адлегласць падзяляе нашыя сталіцы – Вільню і Менск).

Songs of musicians and bands from Lithuania and Belarus from this year‘s Solidarity Concerts will be presented at the Festival, as well as a new CD “169 km” (which is a distance between two our capitals: Vilnius and Minsk).

Today Human Rights House Republic of Azerbaijan was visited by Karin Margrethe Bugge, Director General, Adminstrative Affairs Department and Morten Ruud, Secretary General, Ministry of Justice and the Ploice of Norway.

Youth Group of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina marked 9th November, International Day Against Fascism and Anti-Semitism, reminding all B&H citizens on the day when the Holocaust began and sending the message that we are to remember it every day.

The “Kurdish question” requires debate, but it is almost impossibe to discuss it openly. Media have been allowed to use Kurdish language but still forbidden to
discuss Kurdish issues freely, says Reporters Without Borders.

On the night of 18 November, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee announced via Twitter the dramatic news from HR Center Memorial that one of their employees, Russian citizen Bakhrom Khamroev, had been arrested by the Kyrgyz security services, and later that he had been deported to Moscow.

Dmitry Medvedev met with members of the presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights for the second time during the year. The president said that following the results of the first meeting held in April. Representatives of civil society hope their meeting with the president will be as effective as the previous one.

Mikalai Autukhovich, a businessman and a fierce critic of the Belarusian authorities, is accused of preparation for terrorist acts. Civil society has very little information about the case as the defence lawyer had to sign a statement preventing him to share any particulars about the ongoing investigation. Another political prisoner, Artsiom Dubski, is preparing to get married while in custody.

‘A brave woman pays the price for a misinterpreted interview,’ – stated an independent diplomat and writer Carne Ross at The Huffington Post, linking tough Moroccan stance to a recent interview by Hillary Clinton who praised Morocco’s human rights record. Meanwhile, Front Line launches an urgent action to support the expelled Sahrawi activist.

The Ethiopian National Union of Journalists (ENJU) has opposed plans by the country’s National Electoral Board of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (NEBE) to adopt a media code of conduct to be used for covering the general election scheduled for 2010.

For the first time in the Republic of Kenya the media shall have explicit protection in the constitution if a draft unveiled this week is approved by the citizens at a referendum slated sometime next year. Article 51 of the harmonised draft launched on 17 November, aptly titled ‘Freedom of the Media, a subsection says “freedom and independence of electronic, print and other media of all types are guaranteed”.

On 16 November the editorial offices of Naša Niva and Va-Bank recieved written warnings from the Ministry of Information, and on 17 November Narodnaja Vola and Komsomolskaja Pradva v Biełarusi offices got the same message from the officials. Warnings were issued on the pretext that “publications violated several provisions of the Law on Mass Media.”