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27 November 2009
Belarusian youth activists sentenced to 'restricted freedom' for
attending a peaceful protest have told Amnesty International how they
were targeted by the authorities.
25 November 2009
A proposal initiated by members of two Swiss parties will
ask Swiss voters if they wish to add the sentence "The construction of
minarets is forbidden" to the Constitution.
11 November 2009
Musician and activist Igor Koktysh has been detained for over two years for the peaceful expression of his beliefs. If forcibly returned to Belarus, he could face the death penalty.
26 October 2009
Russian and Kabardino-Balkarian authorities must find and bring to
justice those responsible for the murder of Maksharip Aushev, a leading
civil society activist from Ingushetia.
07 October 2009
A Moscow court has found in favour of the president's libel suit against human rights activist Oleg Orlov who accused him of "being
responsible" for the murder of human rights worker Natalia
Estemirova.
09 September 2009
Any move by the Lithuanian parliament to criminalize the promotion of
homosexuality would violate the country's international obligations to
uphold freedom of expression and fight discrimination.
12 August 2009
Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the Russian charity, Let's Save the Children, is the latest human rights activist to be murdered in Chechnya.
24 July 2009
Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev face up to five years in prison after organizing a Moscow art exhibition. Artists and writers have sent a letter expressing their co
29 June 2009
Amnesty International members across Europe join in a day of action as part of the organization’s solidarity campaign with independent journalists and human righ
25 June 2009
Russia's Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of three men
accused of involvement in the 2006 killing of journalist Anna
Politkovskaya.
04 June 2009
The Lithuanian parliament has voted in favour of a measure that would
prohibit the discussion of homosexuality in schools and ban any
reference to it in public infor
28 May 2009
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
18 May 2009
The first ever Baltic Pride march in Riga, Latvia passed off
successfully and peacefully - but there was violence at
similar events in Russia and Poland.
13 May 2009
A lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride march planned to
take place this weekend in Riga, Latvia has been thrown into doubt
after local councillors att
08 May 2009
The Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has not delivered on the
promises he made about human rights during his first year in power.
03 May 2009
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
01 May 2009
Trade unionists in Turkey have once again been refused permission to
hold a demonstration on May Day in the central Taksim Square in
Istanbul.
