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On 23 October supporters of the opposition protested simultaneously in three Baku venues. This was the 4th such protest in a month. The peculiar feature of this action was the police’s relative lack of aggressiveness and violence toward the protesters. Still, over 150 protesters were detained, including the candidates to Parliament, though the majority of them were released the same day (25-OCT-2005).
 

Last week the president Ilham Aliyev surprised the whole world by the radical changes in the cabinet. The sudden news about the removal of the Minister of Economic Development Farhad Aliyev on the 19-th of October, followed by the dismissal of the Minister of Healthcare Ali Insanov caused lots of talks about the internal disputes in the Azerbaijani authority. This news initiated plenty of rumors about the run-away of the rest of the cabinet (25-OCT-2005).
 

October 24 marks the launch of Index Arts’ exciting and innovative new visual art project, imagine.  art. after. The project, hosted by Guardian Unlimited and curated by Brenda Beban, links refugee artists based in London with artists from their country of origin and will culminate in an exhibition in March 2006. (24-OCT-05)
 

The Roma population in the Republic of Croatia still suffers discrimination, according to a report presented at a round table organized by Croatian Law Centre on Friday. At the same time, the Report represents the end of a mutual one-year project of the NGO’s involved in the emergence of the HRH in Zagreb.

On 13 October 2005, the Supreme Court in Warsaw issued – for the first time – a verdict on compensation for so called “wrongful birth”. The Court considered an extraordinary appeal of Mr and Mrs Wojnarowski (drawn up by lawyers cooperating with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights) and returned the case for re-consideration by the Court of Appeals in Bialystok. (24-OCT-05)

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC) are gravely concerned by continuing threats against the Committee, in spite of an earlier court decision that cleared the group and its leaders of charges of tax evasion. (24-OCT-05)
 

Today, as the UN celebarates its 60th anniversary, and the world should have been able to mark vast advances in respect for human rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, the moral and political leader of the Burmese opposition, has been held in house arrest for a total of ten years since 1989. Even during her spells of relative freedom, she has suffered severe violations of her rights, including tight restrictions of movement. (24-OCT-05)
  

Today, as the UN celebarates its 60th anniversary, and the world should have been able to mark vast advances in respect for human rights, Aung San Suu Kyi, the moral and political leader of the Burmese opposition, has been held in house arrest for a total of ten years since 1989. Even during her spells of relative freedom, she has suffered severe violations of her rights, including tight restrictions of movement. (24-OCT-05)

The Refugee Law Project, one of the ten organisations involved in the Human Rights House Project in Kampala, is hosting a seminar on 27 October called ´Implementing the Right to Education for Refugees in Uganda´. With the accumulated number of refugees and internally displaced people within Uganda´s borders now in excess of two million people, violations of these people´s rights are also a massive problem. (22-OCT-05)
 

By verdict of a Ukranian court, Rasul Guliyev was released 20 October. He was detained in Simferopol 17 October on his way to Republic of Azerbaijan, which he left in 1996 for asylum. He was detained through Interpol on the basis of Azerbaijani authorities’ request. On 21 October Guliyev left for London, but he told that he would come to Republic of Azerbaijan before Parliamentary elections (21-OCT-2005).
 

Two days ago, Vasil Hrodnikau, a correspondent for the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya was found dead, with serious injuries to his head and brain. The circumstances surrounding his death are under investigation by Belarusian police. -This is the third violent death among independent Belarusian journalists since 2000, Andrej Dynko (right) editor of Nasha Niva, reminded the audience at a seminar at the Human Rights house in Oslo yesterday. (20-OCT-05)
  

Two days ago, Vasil Hrodnikau, a correspondent for the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya was found dead, with serious injuries to his head and brain. The circumstances surrounding his death are under investigation by Belarusian police. – This is the third violent death among independent Belarusian journalists since 2000, Andrej Dynko (right) editor of Nasha Niva, reminded the audience at a seminar at the Human Rights House in Oslo yesterday. (20-OCT-05)