South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders
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Embassy of Finland in Vilnius has hosted the presentation of the film by Norwegian filmmaker Erling Borgen about jailed Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev.
[23.09.2010]
Georgia: Council of Europe Anti-torture Committee Criticizes State of Human Rights in Georgia
The report of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture on its 4th periodic visit to Georgia, carried out on February 5-15, 2010 has been made public by Georgian ombudsman Giorgi Tughushi. According to Tughushi, the report puts emphasis on problems in the penitentiary system; specifically, the problem of overcrowding and inhuman treatment of prisoners. The abolishment of long-term appointments in prisons has been criticized. The committee considers the existing conditions in Khsani #7 department an inhuman treatment.
[15.09.2010]
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders launches its Annual Report 2010
Paris-Geneva, 13 September 2010. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), which supports, monitors and protects human rights defenders throughout the year, is publishing today its 2010 Annual Report. The report focuses on the year-round fight for human rights throughout the world. The press release, the annual report and the media kit are available at:
ԱՄՆ պետքարտուղար Հ.Քլինթոնը 2010 թվի օգոստոսի 24-ին պատասխանել է Հարավային Կովկասի իրավապաշտպան ցանցի հայաստանյան կազմակերպությունների այն նամակին, որով վերջիններս դիմել էին իրեն` Երեւան կայացած այցի ժամանակ` հուլիսի 5-ին: Ստորեւ ներկայացվում ԱՄՆ պետքարտուղարի նամաիի թարգմանությունը եւ բնօրինակը:
[31.08.2010]
A thorn in the side of Georgia’s Rose Revolution
Vakhtang Komakhidze was an investigative journalist in Georgia with a nose for a story and a record of annoying the authorities. His revelations of official corruption ended in the death threats which forced him to seek asylum in Switzerland. Robin Oisín Llewellyn talked to him about the limits of media freedom in Georgia.
Eynulla Fatullayev, an imprisoned
Editor-in-Chief of “Realniy Azerbaijan” and “Gundelik Azerbaijan”
newspapers, wrote an open letter to the President of the Azerbaijan
Republic Ilham Aliyev. The letter was published in two parts in Azadlig
newpaper on August 6 and 7.
It became known on Wednesday morning
that the member of the Monitoring Group of the Helsinki Association
Arshaluys Hakobyan has passed away in Toronto (Canada) at the age of
38. Hakobyan was in Canada, asking for political asylum. He was forced
to apply as a result of continuous harassment by the Armenian
authorities.
[30.07.2010]
Swiss Government Grants Vakhtang Komakhidze Asylum
On July 26 the Swiss government granted journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze a
political asylum. Reporting to Media.ge Komakhidze said thus far the
aforementioned information has been confirmed by the Swiss government
verbally only. The legal status of the refugee will be publicized in a
few days.
[29.07.2010]
The Appeal of Georgian non-government organizations
Это информация доступна на Английском.
The Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign in support of
young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan
on forged charges, as human rights activists believe.
Coordinator of the South Caucasus
Network of Human Rights Defenders in Armenia, Mikael Danelian handed
the open letter of Georgian and Azerbaijan human rights defenders to
the US State Secretary Hillary Clinton at the US Embassy together with
the letter of the Armenian human rights defenders. On July 5,
representative of the Armenian Helsinki Association Mika Danelian was
invited to the meeting with Hillary Clinton in Yerevan together with
two more members of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights
Defenders –Artur Sakunts and Levon Barsagian.
We publish the full text of letters human rights defenders from all three countrie: Armenia-eng Azerbaijan Georgia-eng
We publish the full text of letters human rights defenders from all three countrie: Armenia-eng Azerbaijan Georgia-eng
[07.07.2010]
Georgia: Regional Meeting of the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders were held in Tbilisi
On 3-4 of July a regional conference dedicated to freedom of expression,
assembly and association and a regional meeting of the South Caucasus
Network of Human Rights Defenders was held.
According to the Human Rights House Foundation the UN human rights apparatus is looking into Armenia’s human rights situation from several angles: after its Universal Periodic Review in May, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders is currently visiting Armenia. The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention is planning a similar visit, and the UN Committee Against Torture will soon review the country.
Full version at www.humanrightshouse.org
Full version at www.humanrightshouse.org
In Azerbaijan, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has started a charitable campaign named "Marathon in support of 'prisoners of conscience'". The action is dated to the Day of National Press marked annually on July 22.
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