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Sokari Douglas Camp and Siraj Izhar are the joint winners of the competition to design a Living  Memorial for Ken Saro-Wiwa, it was announced at a commemoration ceremony in London today. The event marked the 10th anniversary of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow campaigners, and drew attention to the continued deterioration of the Niger Delta. (10-NOV-05)
 

An alliance of human rights groups and community activists, including Index on Censorship and English PEN, are joining forces to mark the forthcoming tenth anniversary of the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight colleagues. A shortlist of five proposals selected by a panel will be exhibited in the run-up to the anniversary on 10 November 2005. (04-NOV-05)

Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip has been honoured as one of Time magazine’s 2005 European   heroes, it was announced on 24 October at a ceremony in London. Khalip, who is deputy editor-in-chief of bi-weekly independent newspaper Delovaya Gazeta (BDG), has reported widely on corruption, drawing attention the deterioration of human rights in the country. (31-OCT-05)

October 24 marks the launch of Index Arts’ exciting and innovative new visual art project, imagine.  art. after. The project, hosted by Guardian Unlimited and curated by Brenda Beban, links refugee artists based in London with artists from their country of origin and will culminate in an exhibition in March 2006. (24-OCT-05)
 

The anniversary of the 1915 events in Armenia has generated more public debate on both sides of  the issue than ever before. The impassioned disagreement over the semantics of the matter has assumed what to many seem absurd proportions. The Turkish authorities are ready to settle for the term ‘massacre’; the Armenian diaspora insists on the use of ‘genocide´. Index on Censorship reports (18-OCT-05)
 

Not one month after Sudan’s president promised his country a free press, two Sudanese Arabic-language dailies had their printing presses shut down without explanation. The move was neither out of character nor unexpected, but it did abruptly end the honeymoon that permeated Sudan?s political arenas throughout much of July. Index on Censorship reports. (11-OCT-05)

As long as rights abuses continue in Tunisia, freedom of expression experts will continue to question the credibility of the UN World Summit on the Information Society if it is held there as planned this year. The free expression community is increasingly concerned about the country´s record on free speech, and worries that the Tunisian government is seeking to stifle dissent on the eve of the WSIS, scheduled to take place in Tunis, 16-18 November 2005. (30-SEPT-05) 
 

On 9 September, representatives from the international human rights community came together to issue a joint press statement, expressing their concern for the treatment of independent journalists, political activists, and human rights defenders in the Republic of Azerbaijan. They also called for free and fair elections, due to take place on 6 November. (23-SEPT-05)
 

ARTICLE 19, the Global Campaign for Free Expression, is inviting appplications for a one¨Cweek intensive training course on theoretical and practical aspects of promoting freedom of expression and freedom of information in the South Caucasus. The course, developed in conjunction with journalists, freedom of information centers, and human rights organisations from the region, will take place in Kyiv from 22 to 27 November 2005. (16-SEPT-05)