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Today, the Norwegian Tibet Committe passes on a link to a cartoon made and distributed by the previously introduced (09-OCT-06) Race for Tibet campaign. The cartoon can be found here, http://www.racefortibet.org/ , at the Race for Tibet website. Race for Tibet is established to protest against China´s occupation and massive human rights violations towards Tibet in the build-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. (02-NOV-06)
 

-In recent years, the People´s Republic of China has gone from bad to worse, growing ever more indifferent or even arrogant to whatever messages the country gets, be it directly from various trading partners around the world, or in international fora, including the UN. What is taking place, is something close to ethnic cleansing, Rebiya Kadeer stressed during the meeting at the Oslo Human Rights House yesterday. (31-OCT-06)
 

24 october, the day the world observes the official establishment of United Nations, marks a sad anniversary for Burma’s Nobel Peace prize laureate and defender of democracy Aung San Suu Kyi, right. Today, she has been kept under house arrest for an accumulated eleven years since 1989. (24-OCT-06)
 

Yesterday afternoon, members of the Tibetan diaspora were joined by Norwegian human rights activists and other sympathizers in a peaceful demonstration in front of the Norwegian Parliament drawing attention to the 30 September shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese border guards as they tried to cross over to Nepal. See the pictures from the demonstration and read Amnesty International´s urgent action appeal below. (24-OCT-06)
 

“The Human Rights House Foundation submits this letter to you in order to express our deep concern for the five human rights defenders who were brutally attacked before the planned picket in Nazran, organized in memory of Anna Politkovskaya 16 October 2006”. Thus begins HRH-F’s protest letter to President Murat Magomedovich Zyazikov, the President of Ingushetia, right, after the 16 October attack in the capital Nazran. (20-OCT-06)
  

A new set of images received by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) depicts a group of Chinese police at the scene of the shooting of the young Tibetan nun on the Nangpa Pass near the border of Nepal on September 30. The images depict police and possibly officials gathered around the body the day after the nun, 17-year old Kelsang Namtso, was shot dead by People´s Armed Police while she was crossing the pass into exile in Nepal with a large group of Tibetans including children, other nuns and monks. (20-OCT-06)
 

When her nemesis Vladimir Putin’s face fades, and is forgotten, the legacy of Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (1958-2006) will remain. Aage Borchgrevink, right, adviser in the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, also mourns Politkovskaya. (19-OCT-06)
 

Today, the deadline ran out for several hundred international organisations wanting to continue their work in the Russian Federation. Due to new legislation, all international organisations are required to re-register annually. Out of the approximately 500 organizations affected by this law, only some 150 have managed to collect the required paperwork in time. Human Rights Watch are among those who have not.(18-OCT-06)
 

The Norwegian Helsinki Committee reports that their close colleague Jekatarina (Katja) Sokirjanskaja ended up in hospital yesterday with a smashed nose and a concussion after having been hit in the face by a policeman. The violence occurred at a memorial rally for her colleague, the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaja. (17-OCT-06)