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Russia remains one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists, with one of the worst records in solving crimes against the press. On Thursday 17 September Index on Censorship hosts the launch of a major report by Committee to Protect Journalists on impunity and the media in Russia.

Registration of the participants for the Race

Акцыя “Не – расейскай акупацыі”, што прайшла 9 верасня на
Кастрычніцкай плошчы ў Менску, скончылася разгонам і затрыманнямі,
падчас якіх супрацоўнікі міліцыі жорстка абыходзіліся з удзельнікамі
мерапрыемства, збівалі іх, а журналістам забаранялі праводзіць здымкі.
Гэта чарговае сведчанне наяўнасці грубых парушэнняў беларускімі
ўладамі свабодаў мірных сходаў і слова, што з’яўляюцца неад’емнымі
правамі чалавека.

Free Word, where media meets literature and people work collaborately, promotes the power of the written and spoken word and protects creativity and free expression.

Den norske Burmakomité deler ut ett reisestipend årlig på inntil 20.000 kroner til journalister i Norge for reportasjearbeid i Burma eller grenseområdene.

Ugandan journalist and radio talk show host Kalundi Robert Serumaga was arrested by police outside the CBS studios in Kampala on Friday evening. Serumaga was bundled into an unmarked car. Nobody, including his family, has heard from him since. If still alive, he is most likely being confined in an unknown police station or a secret detention / interrogation centre, a so-called safe house. Torture is known to take place in such places.

Ugandan police have used excessive force during clashes with rioting supporters of a local monarch in which at least 14 people died, according to Human Rights Watch. The clashes erupted on 10 September in the capital, Kampala, sparked off by a planned visit by King Ronald Muwenda Mutebi, right, of Buganda kingdom to the central district of Kayunga on 12 September.

The EU should ensure that its significant support to State of Eritrea brings about concrete improvement in the human rights situation in the country, said a panel of leading human rights defenders and State of Eritrea experts in Brussels on Tuesday, on the eve of the 8th anniversary of the 2001 clampdowns. Among the panelists was Elisabeth Chyrum, right, – Executive Director of Human Rights Concern-Eritrea.

Students of European Humanities University and other higher schools of Lithuania, and members of Belarusian and Swedish NGOs have arrived in Norway to observe the parliamnetary elections that will take place on 14 September.

Удзел у місіі па назіранні за парламенцкімі выбарамі ў скандынаўскай краіне возьме група студэнтаў Еўрапейскага гуманітарнага універсітэта і іншых ВНУ Літвы, прадстаўнікоў беларускіх НГА і маладзёвых арганізацыяў Швецыі. Выбары адбудуцца 14 верасня 2009 г.

At least 8 people have been killed in riots in Kampala’s central business district, Republic of Uganda, on Thursday, as Buganda monarchists protested what they say is government mistreatment of their King, Ronald Mutebi, right.

The Government of Republic of Uganda closed four independently-owned radio stations today and suspended their operating licenses for what it called “flouting rules by inciting people, mainly the Baganda tribe, against President Yoweri Museveni, his government and against other tribes”.