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Stop prosecution of Russian exhibition organizers
Yurii Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev are charged with “inciting hatred or enmity” and “denigration of human dignity” for organizing a contemporary art exhibition at the Sakharov Museum in Moscow in 2007 and are facing three years’ imprisonment.
Side event at OSCE Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Oslo
The NGO coalition of Freedom House, Global Witness, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Eurasian Democracy Initiative is organising a lunch time event in the vicinity of the OSCE PA meeting in Oslo this Thursday.
New NHC report: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have to implement their OSCE commitments
Norwegian Helsinki Committee presents new report “Broken promises: freedom of religion or belief issues in the Republic of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan”. The report details freedom of religion or belief issues and presents recommendations in order to bring the countries in line with relevant international human rights standards.
Leading Tibetan environmentalist and art collector gets 15 years in jail
A Chinese court in the western region of Xinjiang has sentenced on 25 June 2010 a leading Tibetan collector of antiquities, environmentalist, founder of the award-winning Three Rivers Environmental Protection group, Karma Samdup to 15 years in jail for robbing graves.
Kyrgyzstan: two killed, about twenty wounded in special operation in Osh Province
Observers from The Norwegian Helsinki Committee and Human Rights Center Memorial arrived on 21 June 2010 in Nariman village in the Kara-Suu region of Osh province immediately after the end of a special operation to search for weapons in the homes of local residents. Two local residents were killed and at least twenty injured during the operation.
Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma
The Rohingya minority group in Western Burma has been victim of human rights violations amounting to crimes against humanity, according to a report “Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar): The Situation of the Rohingyas”. the Rohingya are one of the world’s most persecuted and forgotten people.
Kapittel 10, the Stavanger literary festival Writers in Prison In 2010
The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN celebrates 50 years of defending freedom of expression around the world. PEN vice-president and former WiPC-chair, Moris Farhi talks to the first Cities of Refuge-writer in Stavanger, Mansur Rajih, who arrived in Norway after 15 years in jail in Yemen. In cooperation with ICORN.
“Faith and Free Speech: Defamation of Religions and Freedom of Expression” UN side-event
“Faith and Free Speech: Defamation of Religions and Freedom of Expression” – the International seminar and UN-side event in Geneva.
Seminar on religious defamation: “Can I critizise God?”
When: Thursday, 9. September 2010 To: Thursday, 9. September 2010 Where: Oslo, Wergelandsveien 29 – 0167, Host: Norwegian PEN Contact: (+47 22 60 74 50) More info: www.norskpen.no/php/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=490&Itemid=70