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The European Union has issued one of its strongest messages to Bosnia to date, warning its “fear-mongering” leaders that there will be no “blank checks” for EU membership or entry into the Schengen White List for visa-free travel.

Together with Human Rights Center, a Georgian NGO, and Caucasian Knot, a regional human rights organisation, HRHF goes to Armenia for meetings with local NGOs on the establishment of a human rights NGO network in South Caucasus.

HRHF goes to Georgia for meetings with local human rights organisations, including the Human Rights Centre, a local NGO, to discuss the establishment of a human rights NGO network in South Caucasus.

Together with the Human Rights Centre, a Georgian NGO, HRHF goes to Azerbaijan for meetings with local human rights organisations to discuss the establishment of a human rights NGO network in South Caucasus.

The start of criminal proceedings against the alleged mastermind of the murder of Novaya Gazeta’s journalist Igor Domnikov on April 22, 2009 brings hope that a precedent of putting to trial not only executors but the masterminds of crimes against journalists will be at last created in the Russian Federation. If the case goes all the way to court, it will mark a very meaningful step towards ending impunity for the perpetrators of crimes of the kind.

Human Rights Watch gives Hellman/Hammett grant to Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand–founder of the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan. Kaboudvand is serving a 10 year prison term in Islamic Republic of Iran for his writings and human rights work.

The office of the Iranian human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, was closed down on December 21 last year and her secretary was arrested in January 2009. Despite international recognition Shirin Ebadi has been harassed by Iranian authorities for years.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) today unanimously condemned the Russian Federation for the enforced disappearance of five young men and the extra-judicial killing of another man in different locations the Chechen Republic between October 2002 and April 2004, Russian Justice Initiative said today.

Супольнасць міжнародных праваабарончых арганізацыяў асуджаюць забойства праваабаронцы і адваката Станіслава Маркелава і журналісткі Настассі Бабуравай. У звароце да расейскіх уладаў, праваабаронцы заклікалі да правядзення расследавання забойства і абароны расейскіх праваабаронцаў.

Danuta Przywara, the President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights sends a letter to Dmitri Medvedev, the president of the Russian Federation condemning the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova

Social workers took away the child Boshko from the Prilep family, because Lodgevi violated one of the established regulations in the contract which they signed before taking the child. The foster family without consultations with the authorities from the Welfare Center, invited the media on his first birthday. Megjashi Embassy reacts to both.

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