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Nominations for 2013 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought award announced
20.09.2013
The 2013 Sakharov Prize nominees, presented at a joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Development committees and the Human Rights Subcommittee on Monday, are: Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan), Edward Snowden (USA), Reeyot Alemu and Eskinder Nega (Ethiopia), Ales Bialatski, Eduard Lobau an
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Russia: list of NGOs named “foreign agents” (updated 20 September)
20.09.2013
Russia
About 80 Russian NGOs are found to be “foreign agents” as the result of inspections conducted by the authorities of the country. Here is a summary of administrative cases against and official warnings to organisations that are found to be breaking the “foreign agents” law
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Russian human rights defenders call for creating International Humanitarian Group for Syria
12.09.2013
Russia
Appeal to human rights defenders and independent public actors of Russia, USA, Europe and other countries on the situation in Syria.
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G20 leaders: put free speech on the agenda!
03.09.2013
Russia
Index on censorship has called upon the G20 countries to put free speech on the agenda when they meet in Saint Petersburg, Russia for a summit on 5-6 September.
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Two people sentenced for online insults in Belarus
15.08.2013
Belarus
A theatre playwright and a former worker from the Minsk Automobile Plant were found guilty of using offensive language online in Belarus.
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Kazakhstan oil fields: Five Kilometers of Indifference
13.08.2013
Kazakhstan
Crude Accountability’s new film, “Five Kilometers of Indifference,” describes the many years of struggle of the residents of the village of Berezovka, in western Kazakhstan, to achieve relocation away from one of the world’s largest oil and gas condensate fields, Karachaganak.
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International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus 2013
05.08.2013
Belarus
Thousands of people around the world joined the International Day of Solidarity with Civil Society of Belarus. Human rights defenders, civil activists, politicians, artists and ordinary citizens from 15 countries of the world took part in actions of solidarity on 4 August.
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Belarus Foreign Minister visits EU: calls for demonstration for human rights in Brussels
18.07.2013
Belarus
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is organising a demonstration to “welcome” Belarus Foreign Minister Uladzimir Makey in Brussels on 22 July.
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Pussy Riot versus Darth Vader
17.07.2013
Russia
The feminist punk collective has released a new song and video ahead of an appeal hearing for jailed member Maria Alyokhina on 24 July.
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Kazakhstan: Sentences for attackers on journalist Lukpan Akhmediyarov welcome, but mastermind remains at large
15.07.2013
Kazakhstan
Despite having established that the attack was ordered, police did not identify the mastermind behind it and the authorities failed to recognise that this was not an ordinary crime, but a crime against free expression.
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Journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev killed in Russia
09.07.2013
Russia
Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a well-known Russian journalist who reported on human rights violations in the Caucasus, was shot dead near his house around 7 am local time today.
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PACE called on Russia to reject the law on "homosexual propaganda”
28.06.2013
Russia
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on the Russian Council of the Federation to reject the law on so-called "Propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships among minors" and on the Parliament of Ukraine not to pursue the examination of the draft law on the prohibition of so-called "homosexual propaganda”.
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