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Reporters without Borders issued an “atlas of freedom of the press and media in the Russian Federation.”

The Tweraneho Listeners Club trial was put on halt once again yesterday when the Magistrate accepted the prosecution’s request for a further adjournment. The case against the Tweraneho Listeners Club, a local human rights organisation working in Western Republic of Uganda, has dragged on since January 2008 when several of its members were arrested after they took part in a weekly local radio talk show in which they criticized the district’s political leadership and discussed cases of corruption and abuse of office.

Major General Hussein Ali, right, the top policeman accused of supporting Kenya’s post-election violence, in which thousands were killed or raped because of their ethnicity, has been given a cushy job as head of the country’s postal service.

The Human Rights House of Sarajevo, on behalf of the Informal Coalition of Non-governmental Organizations for UPR of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has submitted its joint NGO Report for UPR to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. The Report represents the official standpoint of the NGO sector on the implementation of UN human rights standards in B&H.

Eastern Africa Journalists Association has received reports indicating that some 15 Eritrean journalists have disappeared and are being suspected to be languishing in a jail located in a remote part of the country. There is no independent media in State of Eritrea and it is always extremely difficult to get independent information coming out of the country.

The Polish Constitution from 1997 deprived incapacitated persons of their voting rights. Meanwhile, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, signed by Republic of Poland, asserts the voting rights to mentally disabled people regardless of legal incapacitation. During last voting to European Parliament, incapacitated persons were not entitled to vote (as well as in every voting after 1997). Article 7 paragraph 2 point 3 of Polish Voting Ordinance do European Parliament points out that incapacitated persons are deprived of the right to vote.

CMS has recently published new directory that contains works of lecturers presented on the conference “The role of Youth in Peace-Building Process” which was held in Donja Stubica between 24th and 27th of March this year. The conference has gathered around 50 young people from South-East Europe, Europe and Mediterranean countries.

Festival of Women Arts in B&H

In police custody, Aleh Surhan, an opposition activist from Viciebsk, Northern Republic of Belarus, was beaten with his head on a lavatory pan, hanged handcuffed in a cell, and stamped on his head. And only because he was suspected of flying the banned national white-red-white flag in the streets of the city. The flag, which used to be the official symbol of Republic of Belarus from 1991 to 1995, is now largely associated with the opposition movement.

Youth Group of Helsinki Committee started the project “The 8 (un)Solvables” which consists of 8 biggest and most frequent problems that youth in Bijeljina (Republic of Srpska) encounter with. The aim of the project was to raise the awareness of the public on youth issues in Bijeljina and send a request to relevant institutions to take certain measures and concrete steps in solving these problems.

Апазіцыйнага актывіста з Віцебску Алега Сургана ў міліцэйскім пастарунку білі галавой аб унітаз, падвешвалі на кайданках да кратаў, скакалі нагамі па галаве. Усё гэта – за падазрэнне ў вывешванні на гарадскіх вуліцах забароненых нацыянальных бел-чырвона-белых сцягоў, якія былі дзяржаўныя ў 1991-1995 гг., а цяпер асацыююцца з апазіцыяй.

Human Rights Watch insists that Russian authorities should take urgent steps to ensure the safety of activists from the human rights group Memorial and investigate suspicious activities that may threaten their safety.