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Right before the Easter “Nasha Niva” got a letter from Minsk city executive committee. It has it: “the allocation of “Nasha Niva” in Minsk is not appropriate”. The motivation is as follows: “… it has been ascertained … that the 22th of March the editor-in-chief of “Nasha Niva” was put under administrative arrest for 10 days”. (18-APR-06)

Right before Easter, the Belarusian newspaper Nasha Niva received a letter from the Executive Committee of the city of Minsk, which stated that “the allocation of Nasha Niva in Minsk wasn’t appropriate.” The motivation was that “on 22 March, the editor-in-chief of Nasha Niva was put under administrative arrest for 10 days”. This editor-in-chief, Andrej Dynko, right in the middle, was detained while getting off a bus on 21 March, at the time of the post-election protests. Later he was convicted of “foul language”. Here, the newspaper’s editorial board makes an appeal. (18-APR-06)
 

The NGO sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina has launched an initiative for drafting of an anti-discrimination law in this country. Adoption of the anti-discrimination law is not only an obligation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by international standards for the purpose of joining the European integration, but also a necessity and an urgent task of the general public of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  (17-APR-06)
 

The NGO sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina has taken the first step towards drafting an anti-discrimination law for the country. Adoption of an anti-discrimination law that complies with international standards is not only a condition attached to the process of joining the European integration, but also a necessity and an urgent task of the general public of Bosnia and Herzegovina.  (17-APR-2006)
 

13 May 2006 is the day of re-run Parliamentary Elections in 10 districts of Republic of Azerbaijan. However there is not observed any special interest to the Parliamentary elections, as the society considers that the major balance or rather the disbalance of political forces have already been outlined and the elections or rather fight over 10 seats cannot bring major changes. The majority of human rights defenders believe that, the lack of attention both by the national and international observers create additional opportunities for obvious fraud on elections and numerous human rights violations. (15-APR-2006)
 

On 10 April the Basmanny Municipal Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the Federal Registry Service of the Ministry of Justice, which wanted the Russian Research Center for Human Rights to be liquidated as a legal entity. Is this a definitive victory, or is the Federal Registry Service preparing a new blow against human rights activists? Will the new NGO law become a grave digger for all civil initiatives in Russia? (13-APR-06)

On 10 April the Basmanny Municipal Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the Federal Registry Service of the Ministry of Justice, which wanted the Russian Research Center for Human Rights to be liquidated as a legal entity. Is this a definitive victory, or is the Federal Registry Service preparing a new blow against human rights activists? Will the new NGO law become a grave digger for all civil initiatives in Russia? (13-APR-06)
 

On the 10th of April the European Union has officially introduced sanctions against the Belarusian president Aliaksandr Lukashenka and 30 high-ranking officials. All of them are non grata persons in the EU countries. (11-APR-06)

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has published today the report on its fourth visit to Norway in October 2005. The report has been made public at the request of the Norwegian authorities. (11-APR-06)
 

The Republic of Uganda Human Rights Commission has revealed that Government has not yet paid over 700 million shillings in compensation to victims of torture and human rights violations,the chairperson Ms Margaret Sekaggya, right, revealed this fact at a press conference on Friday.Out of 800 million shillings, which the government was ordered to pay to victims of torture by State security agencies, only 93 million is paid. (10-APR-06)
 

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights stood up for Hanna Rozanska – a woman directed for psychiatric examinations at a closed ward. The Foundation’s lawyers lodged a complaint to the Constitutional Tribunal against the imprecise regulations of the Code of Penal Proceedings. (08-APR-06)

The Supreme Court refused to consider the complaints of the former candidates to the presidential position of Republic of Belarus Aliaksandr Milinkevich and Aliaksandr Kazulin, in which they asked to bring criminal cases with the aim to find illegitimate the results of the presidential election that was held on 19 March (06-APR-06)