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Not one month after Sudan’s president promised his country a free press, two Sudanese Arabic-language dailies had their printing presses shut down without explanation. The move was neither out of character nor unexpected, but it did abruptly end the honeymoon that permeated Sudan?s political arenas throughout much of July. Index on Censorship reports. (11-OCT-05)

From the Norwegian Tibet Committee, a member of the Norwegian Human Rights House, www.humanrightshouse,org has received the following story, another example of violations of the human rights of Tibetan refugees by Nepalese authorities. As previously reported on this site, the situation for Tibetan refugees in Nepal is getting increasingly difficult. (11-OCT-05)
 

Last week, several human rights NGOs and well-known individual human rights defenders demonstrated against the recent attempts to silence the Nizhny-Novgorod-based NGO Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS). www.humanrightshouse.org has received RCFS’s own newsletter report and numerous pictures of the demonstration. Read the report and see the pictures below. (10-OCT-05)
 

Last week, several human rights NGOs and well-known individual human rights defenders demonstrated against the recent attempts to silence the Nizhny-Novgorod-based NGO Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS). www.humanrightshouse.org has received RCFS?s own newsletter report and numerous pictures of the demonstration. read the report and see the pictures below. (10-OCT-05)
 

Tens of activists were arrested and heavily beaten by police Sunday 9th of October. According to TURAN 10 journalists when among the injured. The Norwegian Ambassador Steinar Gil, said to the News Agency AP that the police exaggerated their reaction. (10-OCT-05) 
 

On 5 October Rolf Ekeus, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, declared that the Russian human rights organization “Memorial”, Historical, Educational, Human Rights and Charitable Society, has been awarded the prestigious International Van der Stoel Award. (10-OCT-05)
 

On 3 September in Moscow human rights activists from the Movement For Human Rights began protesting against police arbitrariness. They went to the square near the Russian Museum of History with placates reading: ‘We don’t need this type of vertical power, No to police arbitrariness, Criminal responsibility for mass beatings and unconstitutional orders’. (07-OCT-05)
 

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized a series of three roundtables and the Conference on the common topic of „What does Bosnia and Herzegovina need to achieve in the field of human rights in order to satisfy the European Union criteria?“. The roundtables were held in Bihac on June 2, Livno on June 16 and Trebinje on June 30, and the Conference was held in Sarajevo on October 4 and 5. (07-OCT-05)
 

Aliaksandr Lukashenka (right, photo: AP)) is going to protect Belarusian people against anti-Belarusian propaganda. He states that radio broadcasting from abroad forms a negative image of Republic of Belarus. (04-OCT-05)
 

Nine Azeri human rights NGOs work to set up a Human Rights House in the capital Baku to strengthen human rights work. The nine said it was very important for them that the annual meeting of the Human Rights House Network 7-10 September was held in Baku, in the run-up to the elections. (2-OCT-05)
 

Radovan Stankovic (right) was transferred from the ICTY to Sarajevo on September 29, to be tried by the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Stankovic is charged with four counts of crimes against humanity and four counts of violations of the laws or customs of war. He is indicted in connection with crimes committed in 1992-93 after the fall of the Bosnian town of Foca. He is the first ICTY indictee to be transferred to a state in the former Yugoslavia for trial. (02-OCT-05)
 

From Oksana Chelysheva, right, the editor of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS), www.humanrightshouse.org has received the below statement, which she recently presented to one of the plenary sessions at the OSCE summit in Warsaw. RCFS is urging both individual human rights activists and their organisations to appeal to Russian authorities to stop the harassment of human rights defenders. (01-OCT-05)