Human Rights
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 13:26
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović today expressed regret over a decision by a court in Tajikistan requiring journalist Olga Tutubalina to pay damages for defaming the country’s intelligentsia.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 13:25
International standards and OSCE commitments in promoting women’s rights, gender equality in state institutions and the role of women in business, were highlighted by Hanna Sands, an expert from the OSCE Secretariat.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 13:24
“It is worrying that minor offenses like stating an incorrect publishing data and petty irregularities justify actions by the authorities of Kazakhstan that can limit freedom of the media and restrict access to information,” Mijatović said.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 11:15
Minister of Interior Lotfi Ben Jeddou told radio station Shems FM security forces did not target specific people and instead responded to the prosecutor’s decision to retrieve a state-owned property.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 11:09
A U.S. rights activist on Tuesday accused Egyptian police of breaking her arm after they detained her in Cairo airport while she was on her way to a humanitarian visit to neighboring Gaza.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 10:24
Increased restrictions on freedoms of expression, assembly, and association, including intimidation, arrest, and use of force against journalists and human rights and democracy activists online and offline.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 10:23
Other problems reported during the year included; police abuse of detainees and substandard, although improving, prison conditions. There were also allegations of politically motivated harassment.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 10:21
Baku slammed the U.S. State department 2013 Human Rights Report on Azerbaijan as “biased and failing to reflect the reality.”
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 10:05
He appealed to the Prosecutor General with a request to take appropriate measures, but appropriate actions were not taken, he added.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 10:05
In its report on Human Rights in the World the State Department seems to agree with human rights workers that at least four political prisoners in Uzbekistan should have been released according to the Uzbek amnesty decree.