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The Uighur Community in Oslo invites all sympathisers to join their demonstration against China’s very rough handling last Sunday of the local Uighur protests in the Xinjiang province, Western China, against China’s suppression of the Uighurs of the region. Allegedly, more than 500 uighurs were killed in the process of bringing the demonstrations under control. Similar displays of sympathy with the uighurs of Xinjiang will take place in a large number of places around the world.

-One day, this journalist is sentenced to death. Two years later he gets a ten-year sentence. We reiterate our call for his immediate release.-Reporters without Borders

A new report by the independent Russian HR organisation Memorial on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic and Ingushetia concludes that the situation in both republics have gone from bad to worse in the last 18 months. More people are getting abducted and killed, fewer dare to report these incidents, and women’s rights are constantly violated, the report concludes. Right, Svetlana Gannushkina of Memorial.

–Although the Kurdish people consist of less than 15% of the Iranian population, they also make up about half of the number of people executed and have [been] subjected to political persecution in the past 10 years.–Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand

Nobel Peace Center and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee invite to a seminar and the opening of a photo exhibition ‘Waiting Room’ by Linda Bournane Engelberth.

The seminar will discuss the recent invitation from the European Union to Belarus to join the Eastern Partnership, and how this invitation can bring Belarus into a process of much needed reforms.

Norwegian Parliament (called Stortinget) was due to host a luncheon for a visiting
delegation from the People´s Republic of China earlier this week, but the 20 April event turned into a
diplomatic standoff.

In Hakkari, where people are protesting against operations against the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), one child has died, and a police officer violently beat another child with his rifle butt.

More than 40 Human Rights House Network members and observers from 18 countries will gather to the annual meeting in Oslo.