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After 10 years, the European Court for Human Rights rendered the judgment in the case of Rachwalski and Ferenc v. Republic of Poland (application no. 47709/99). The Court held that in the examined case the Police had abused their powers. The decision is likely to force the authorities to consider changing the legal standards of search.

The president of the Katanga branch of the Association Africaine de Défense des Droits de l’Homme – ASADHO (African Association for the Defence of Human Rights), Mr Golden Misabiko, right, was arrested on 24 July 2009 together with ASADHO/Katanga’s vice-president, Mr Timothee Mbuya.

The Human Rights Committee considered the third periodic report of Republic of Azerbaijan on 20 and 21 July 2009 and adopted its concluding observations for the country on 30 July 2009.

The report highlights numerous cases of human rights violations in the context of anti-terrorism operations as well as illegal acts committed under the veil of anti-terrorism actions.

The friendly settlement reached between Jolanta Kramarz, right, and Carrefour Republic of Poland Limited Company is precedential in the Republic of Poland. The case was carried on by the Stategic Litigation Programme of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.

Appeals submitted by activists of the United Democratic Forces were turned down by the Homiel district court on 22 July. The five men were prosecuted for staging an action on 7 May to commemorate the violent disappearance of General Yury Zakharanka, the former interior minister who was a fierce critic of President Lukashenka.

Index on Censorship and Article 19 are delighted to present ‘Burma: Between the lines’, a celebration of art and survival. The event, on 8 August, will feature performance, poetry, film, theatre and photography and will celebrate the ongoing resistance and imagination of Burmese artists, writers and activists.

When: Thursday, 8. January 2009 6.30-10.30 To: Thursday, 8. January 2009 Where: London, Free Word Centre Host: Index on Censorship/Article 19

When: Friday, 24. July 2009 To: Sunday, 26. July 2009 Where: Nairobi, Hotel Sarova Panafric Host: National Union of Somali Journalists National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) hosts landmark conference to discuss and set standards on professional ethics, media regulation and democratic development in the area of freedom of opinion and expression, publication and the […]

-Somali journalists are committed to the mission of journalism and the duty of journalists to be independent, to report the truth and to serve the whole community, it says in the declaration adopted by the National Somali Journalists Conference organised by the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) in co-operation with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), held in Nairobi from July 24-26, 2009.

An outbreak of fighting in the eastern Congolese province of South Kivu has forced more than 35,000 civilians to flee their homes in the past two weeks. The latest population movement brings the total number of civilians to have been displaced in South Kivu since January as a result of clashes between government forces and Rwandan rebels, and reprisal attacks on civilians, to about 536,000 people.

Since relative peace returned to northern Republic of Uganda in 2006 after more than two decades of conflict, some 80 percent of the more than 1.8 people in camps for the internally displaced have returned home. Right, typical IDP camp in Northern Republic of Uganda.