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27 April 2009
Yurii Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev could face up to five years' imprisonment after they organized a contemporary art exhibition in Moscow.
16 April 2009
Sakit Zahidov was considered a prisoner of conscience. It is thought that he was imprisoned to silence his critical reporting of the authorities.
09 April 2009
The authorities in Moldova have threatened to arrest a group of civil
society activists who organized a peaceful demonstration, blaming them
for the rioting that fol
01 April 2009
A prominent Russian human rights activist who has long been critical of
the government has been assaulted near his Moscow home.
23 March 2009
Two men were killed during a demonstration in Pristina in February 2007, when Romanian police under the control of the UN fired rubber bullets at the crowd.
05 March 2009
The Azerbaijani authorities have dropped a defamation suit against a prominent human rights defender.
20 February 2009
The jury in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial has acquitted all those charged with involvement in the murder.
17 December 2008
The European Parliament has honoured a jailed Chinese dissident in absentia with its top human rights award.
01 December 2008
Journalists in Croatia are being violently targeted for trying to
expose the truth about war crimes and corruption, while the country's
leaders fail to protect them.
01 October 2008
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights activists and the
participants of the Sarajevo Queer Festival continue to receive death
threats.
18 July 2008
Duygu Ozge Bayar is still wanted by the Turkish authorities after she and members of her choir were accused of spreading propaganda for an outlawed separatist group.
21 March 2008
Human rights activist Eren Keskin has been sentenced to six months and 20 days in prison after being convicted of “denigrating the Turkish army”.
29 February 2008
Three years after the murder of Azerbaijani journalist Elmar Hüseynov, assaults on opposition journalists continue.
27 February 2008
Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, a former deputy editor of a Belarusian newspaper, has been released early from prison.
30 November 2007
The Russian authorities displayed a systematic disregard for basic human
rights in the run-up to parliamentary elections.
05 November 2007
"The freedom of the press and the freedom of journalists to do their job are in everyone's best interest," writes the President of the International Federati
03 October 2007
People from around the world, including members and supporters of Amnesty International, are commemorating Russian journalist and human rights defender Anna Politkovsk
12 August 2007
Young people from across the globe have joined
Amnesty International (AI) in a creative celebration of International
Youth Day to de
03 May 2007
2006 was a year in which killings of reporters and media staff reached historic levels. All of society pays the price when journalists are killed with impunity and cen
03 May 2006
Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, more
journalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in the
world.
