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The Human Rights House Foundation together with HRH Network members in the Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation and partners in Georgia has launched a new project, Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers.

Секретариат международной Сети Домов прав человека вместе с партнерами в Азербайджане, Беларуси, Грузии и России объявляют набор для участия в программе дистанционного обучения международному праву прав человека. Отбор участников производится на конкурсной основе.

On the night of 18 November, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee announced via Twitter the dramatic news from HR Center Memorial that one of their employees, Russian citizen Bakhrom Khamroev, had been arrested by the Kyrgyz security services, and later that he had been deported to Moscow.

Dmitry Medvedev met with members of the presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights for the second time during the year. The president said that following the results of the first meeting held in April. Representatives of civil society hope their meeting with the president will be as effective as the previous one.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the Russian Federation.

The Human Rights Committee voiced its concern at the alarming incidence of threats, violent assaults and murders of journalists and human rights defenders in the Russian Federation, in their concluding remarks of the review of the Russian Federation, which were issued on 28 October 2009.

Two of Russia’s most prominent human rights organizations’ work have been thrown into jeopardy by municipal efforts to evict them from their offices.

43-year-old scion of a wealthy, politically influential family and a long-time oppositional figure in the republic of Ingushetia, was recently killed when his car was strafed with gunfire, as he drove along a federal highway, adding another name to the list of activists, who have been killed lately in the Northern Caucasus.

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) express their profound concern about the killing of Mr. Maksharip Aushev, a well-known activist from Ingushetia, on
25 October 2009, in the neighbouring Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.