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Kurdish journalist gets 10 year jail term
-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
Abductions and murders on the rise in both the Chechen Republic and Ingushetia
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.
Persecution of Kurdish Political Activists in Iran
–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
Seminar: Unjust and inefficient? Dublin II and the right to asylum in Europe
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 Belarus Road Map to Europe = the Road to Democracy?
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 withstands Chinese pressure
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.
Police brutality witnessed against 14-year old Kurdish child
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.
Annual Meeting of Human Rights House Network
More than 40 Human Rights House Network members and observers from 18 countries will gather to the annual meeting in Oslo.
HRHF and NHC concerned over repeated harrasment of HR defender Svetsik
KGB 220050, MinskProspekt Nesavisimosti 17Tel +375 17-2199299e-mail: info@kgb.gov.by Copy to: Prosecutor’s Office of VitebskVitebsk region210601, ul Zestkova, 14а, Vitebsk, Теl./Fax:+375 212 47-73-27+375 212 47-64-44 The General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of BelarusMr Vasilevich G.A.220050 Internacionalnaja 22, MinskTel. +375 17 2264360 +375 17 2264358 The Ministry of Internal AffairsMr Naumov V.V.220050 Ul. Gorodskoj Val, 2Fax […]