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The Norwegian Tibet Committee this morning distributed the link to video footage showing a group of Tibetan refugees trying to cross the border to Nepal. The episode, caught on camera by a group of international climbers, clearly shows that one of the Tibetans are shot dead, another wounded and left for dead, says Agence France Press. The Romanian tv channel Pro TV has made the link available on the internet. Watch the video here. (17-OCT-06)
 

Sergei Lapin, Policeman, accused of torture in the Chechen Republic.
Prilepina and V. Minina, high rank officials Special Forces, accused of ‘disappearances’ in the Chechen Republic. Jurii Budanov, Colonel, accused of rape and murder of an 18 year old girl.
HRH-F´s Project Manager for the Russian Federation Ane Tusvik Bonde, right, mourns the loss of Anna Politkovskaya. (16-OCT-06)
 

-In the Chechen Republic, Russian policemen get accustomed to doing anything they want to prisoners, says anti-torture-campaigner Igor Kalyapin, right. -These impulses they then bring back into the Russian police and court system where torture is already a well established method. (14-OCT-06)
 

27 September Min Ko Naing, right, the famous student leader from the people´s uprising in 1988, was arrested together with two other student leaders. A few days later, three more activists were detained. Below, please find the links to petitions you can sign to support the demand towards Burmese authorities to release the student leaders. (13-OCT-06)
   

The Norwegian shipping company Wilh. Wilhelmsen is establishing a service company in Burma (Republic of the Union of Myanmar), hidden behind the name of Makara Marine Contractors. The company’s activities will mainly target the oil and gas sector, which is one of the main sources of revenue for the Burmese military regime. (10-OCT-06)
 

The Norwegian Tibet Committee currently distributes information about a fresh campaign whose ambition it is to make the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics a catalyst for change in the People´s Republic of China. The Race for Tibet harnesses the energy of the Olympics and goodwill of people worldwide to call on the People´s Republic of China to end human rights abuses in Tibet and directly engage the Dalai Lama to find a negotiated solution for Tibet. (09-OCT-06)
 

Fresh figures from the Norwegian Red Cross unveil that Kurds, together with Pakistanis, top the statistics for forced marriages in Norway. In an open meeting to take place at the Human Rights House in Oslo on Tuesday, the Norwegian Council for the Rights of the Kurds’s (RKR) women’s issues group wishes to address this, informs RKR’s administrator Liv Kjølseth, right. (07-OCT-06)
  

This morning 2003 Nobel Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi visited the Human Rights House in Oslo. Ebadi is in Oslo to open the film festival Film fra Sør which this year focuses on Islamic Republic of Iran. Almost 40 Iranian movies will be shown, some of which are forbidden in Islamic Republic of Iran itself. During her visit, Ebadi gave her view on the question how the West can change the human rights situation in Islamic Republic of Iran. (05-OCT-06)
 

The 16th  Films from the South Festival will take place in Oslo from October 5.– 15 2006.  Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi (Iran) and Norwegian minister for Culture Mr Trond Giske  will open the 16th Films From the South Festival on Thursday October the 5th. ‘Dreaming Lhasa,’ a feature film by Ritu Sarin and Tenzin Sonam  is among the selected films to be screened for the festival. (27-SEP-06)