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Official institutions of Republic of Belarus hold on to their selective understanding of freedom of speech. Independent newspapers face discrimination throughout Republic of Belarus, the last week bringing new facts from Hlybokaje and Babrujsk. As well as Slonim, where the authorities force common people to pay for the official local print, should or should they not want to read it.

Дзяржаўныя структуры ў розных канцах Беларусі з зайздросным пастаянствам дыскрымінуюць недзяржаўную прэсу на карысць афіцыйнае. На гэтым тыдні з чарговымі актамі ўціску сутыкнулася вольнае слова ў Глыбокім і Бабруйску. У Слоніме ж улада прымушае насельніцтва з уласнай кішэні ўтрымліваць афіцыёзную “раёнку”.

While renegade leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, top the list of Ugandans due for trial at the International Criminal Court, ICC, some suggest that the ICC needs to look more closely at Uganda’s role in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

The activist coming is a representative of PYD. A translator will be present throughout the meeting, to translate both ways between Kurdish and English.

In a fresh statement on the referendum over consitutional amendments in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee addresses the state coercion to make people vote, the absence of a meaningful public debate, and ultimately, given the rushed advance procedures, of the legality of the referendum. read the full stement below.

The Norwegian Burma Committee is one among more than 150 exile and solidarity groups for Burma now participating and supporting a worldwide campaign urging the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make it a personal priority to secure the release of all political prisoners in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar).

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is deeply disappointed with the five-months’ prison term imposed on a leading editor, accused of ‘unlawfully printing a newspaper and spreading lies’.

The First Children’s Embassy in the World Megjashi asked for accountability from the inter-municipal Center for Social Welfare (CSW) in Skopje, regarding the last case of pedophilia, where the father raped his two juvenile daughters.

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) condemns the recent verbal accusations levelled against the news agency Makfax by a state official in FYR Macedonia.

У Вільні адбылася прэзентацыя дакументальна-публіцыстычнага фільму Вольгі Мікалайчык “Вызваленне”.

Самагубства Яны Паляковай пасля нечакана жорсткага прысуду і здзекаў у афіцыйным друку – ганьба для сістэмы. Так мяркуе беларуская незалежная супольнасць праваабаронцаў і журналістаў. Пракуратура ў крымінальнай справе адмовіла.

The activist from Salihorsk Yana Paliakova committed suicide after an unexpectedly tough court sentence and a humiliating libel in official press. The prosecutor’s office found no reason to initiate poroceedings.