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The Assembly of the city of Sarajevo, at its session held on 29 September 2005, gave Mrs. Natasa Kandic, the executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center, an honorary citizen of the city of Sarajevo award! (30-SEP-05)

As long as rights abuses continue in Tunisia, freedom of expression experts will continue to question the credibility of the UN World Summit on the Information Society if it is held there as planned this year. The free expression community is increasingly concerned about the country´s record on free speech, and worries that the Tunisian government is seeking to stifle dissent on the eve of the WSIS, scheduled to take place in Tunis, 16-18 November 2005. (30-SEPT-05) 
 

The Rafto Foundation will at long last be able to welcome Rebyia Kadeer in Bergen. She is coming to Norway to thank for the support and increased awareness on the human rights situation for the Uyghur population in Northwestern the People´s Republic of China. Mrs Kadeer will also discuss the matter of fifteen inncocent Uyghurs imprisoned on Guantanamo (10-OCT-2006)

BBC News reported on September 29th that the People´s Republic of China will tighten their grip on the Uyghurs.

According to BBC News the police in the Republic of Azerbaijan have beaten and arrested dozens of protesters during a rally in the capital, Baku, on 25 September. The Interior Ministry said the rally was not sanctioned and protesters had been warned that force would be used. (29-SEPT-05)
  

From his colleague Tatiana Banina, who recently was among the delegates to HRH´s conference, workshops and annual meeting in Baku, www.humanrightshouse.org has just learnt that Stanislav Dmitrievski, right, of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society has received an indictment stating that he is guilty of having performed actions aimed at inciting hatred or hostility. The maximum penalty for this crime is five years´ imprisonment. (30-SEP-05)
  

Maria Dahle, right, Executive Director of HRH, left Baku with a big smile on her face. -Going into its second decade, she says, -the Human Rights House Network is showing signs of maturing into something far bigger and more powerful than we could have hoped for only a few years ago. (30-SEP-05)
 

 On 29 September Stanislav Dmitrievsky, right, the executive director of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and the mane editor of the newspaper Pravo-zashchita, was handed the accusative conclusion of the indictment of inciting interregional and ethic enmity, in accordance with Article 282 Procedural Criminal Code, of the Russian Federation. The maximum punishment provided by this Article is 5 years´ imprisonment. (29-Sep-05)
 
 

Celebrating the International Public Right to Know Day on 28th September, the Croatian Helsinki Committee presented results of the comparative survey of the implementation of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the Republic of Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia. According to the results presented in the Press Club on Wednesday 28th September, Republic of Croatia stands behind Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia in implementation of the FOIA. (28-SEP-05)
 

With us to Baku earlier this month, HRH brought Baard Brinchmann Lovvig, right, a professional photographer, to cover the proceedings of the conference, workshops and network meeting also in pictures. Below, see a selection of his shots from the four intensive days the delegates spent together from 7 to 10 September. (29-SEP-05)
  

Azeri authorities must stop the harassment of independent journalists, political activists and human rights defenders. This is the message in a statement from the Human Rights House Network in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Russian Federation, Republic of Belarus, Republic of Poland, Norway, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, England, Republic of Kenya and Republic of Uganda, the Swedish Helsinki Committee and the Human Rights Defenders Office of the International Service for Human Rights adopted 8 September in Baku. (20-SEP-05)
 

On 9 September the Russian State Duma sent an appeal to the Head of State re. the regulation of the process of adoption of Russian children. The appeal proposes a temporary moratorium on the adoption of Russian children by citizens from the US and also a bilateral agreement as an obligatory condition for adoptions. This is the reaction towards several cases of murder of adopted Russian children in the USA in recent years. Boris Altshuler (right), the head of the “Right of Child” human rights organization sees a lot of serious problems in this project. (27-SEP-05)