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Together with several international human rights organisations, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee strongly condemns the brutal attack on the Azerbaijani journalist Idrak Abbasov and four other journalists on 18 April 2012. In a letter adressed to President Ilham Aliyev the NHC demands that the Azerbaijani authorities launch an immediate, independent and transparent investigation into these brutal attacks. Read the letter in full below.

Lukpan Akhmedyarov, Uralskaya nedelya journalist, was attacked by a group of three men on the night of 19-20 April near the porch of his house. Akhmedyarov is known for his criticism of the government and his participation in protests.

The World Bank’s policies for land privatisation and concentration have paved the way for corporations from Wall Street to Singapore to take over 80 million hectares of land from rural communities across the world in the past few years, says farmers’ movement and its international allies in a collective statement released at the opening of the World Bank’s Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, D.C.

International NGOs from Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, including Norwegian Helsinki Committee, launched a joint campaign for the removal of the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship from Belarus due to the country’s poor human rights record.

ARTICLE 19 calls for lifting of the blanket ban on all protests on the Habib Bourguiba Avenue of the Tunisian capital and for investigation into the heavy-handed tactics used by Tunisian security forces to disperse thousands of protestors – including journalists, unionist and civil society representatives – that were commemorating Martyrs’ Day on the Avenue on 9 April 2012.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development must maintain demands that Turkmenistan and Belarus meet set benchmarks before any investments in the restrictive countries are made. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee participated in a meeting at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, discussing the Bank’s balanced approach towards Belarus and Turkmenistan.

The Lady is an epic, intimate and important story about the Nobel Peace Price winner Aung San Suu Kyi and her battle for Burma.

The Norwegian Burma Committee invites to the premier of the movie which will take placce on April 27, 2012 in Oslo kino.

Norwegian PEN in its annual meeting will look closely at the situation in Syria. Journalist and correspondent for Aftenposten Jørgen Lohne, activist Sara Azmeh Rasmussen and the Syrian journalist Massoud Akko will participate in the event. The meeting will be chaired by Elisabeth Eide.

On 15 March the European Parliament adopted a resolution that was highly critical of the latest developments in Kazakhstan and expressed deep concern with the human rights situation. In addition to that, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) sent a statement to the European Parliament jointly with the International Partnership for Human Rights in Brussels and the Netherlands Helsinki Committee in the Hague, in an appeal to use the new cooperation agreement to push for follow-through on Kazakhstan’s human rights promises.