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Human rights defenders defy repression in Western Saharaposted on: 2006/05/11

11 May 2006

In spite of the release of human rights defenders and others from detention in March and April, the Moroccan authorities continue to try to repress any independent human rights work in Western Sahara. Human rights organizations are denied legal registration and human rights defenders are subjected to heavy surveillance, threats and harassment.

“The Moroccan authorities must move to ensure that human rights defenders are free to undertake their legitimate work in conformity with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders,” said Front Line Deputy Director, Andrew Anderson, at the end of a Front Line mission to Western Sahara. “The international community must also play a much stronger role in ensuring that independent civil society can operate freely as a prerequisite for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.”

Front Line met with human rights defenders operating under constant heavy surveillance in Laayoune and Smara.

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Human rights defenders defy repression in Western Saharaposted on: 2006/05/11

11 May 2006

In spite of the release of human rights defenders and others from detention in March and April, the Moroccan authorities continue to try to repress any independent human rights work in Western Sahara. Human rights organizations are denied legal registration and human rights defenders are subjected to heavy surveillance, threats and harassment.

“The Moroccan authorities must move to ensure that human rights defenders are free to undertake their legitimate work in conformity with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders,” said Front Line Deputy Director, Andrew Anderson, at the end of a Front Line mission to Western Sahara. “The international community must also play a much stronger role in ensuring that independent civil society can operate freely as a prerequisite for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.”

Front Line met with human rights defenders operating under constant heavy surveillance in Laayoune and Smara.

Incautación de fondos preocupa a organizaciones de derechos humanos en Rusia, septiembre 2005posted on: 2006/01/22

Importantes organizaciones rusas de defensa de los derechos humanos, entre ellas Memorial y el Grupo Moscú Helsinki, expresaron en un comunicado conjunto su preocupación por la incautación de fondos que las autoridades impositivas rusas impusieron sobre la organización de derechos humanos Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) [Sociedad para la amistad ruso-chechenia].

Las autoridades impositivas rusas (FTE) demandaron a RCFS por aproximadamente 1 000 0000 de rublos (aproximadamente US $ 35 000) en concepto de impuestos atrasados y multas, alegando falta de pago de impuestos sobre donaciones internacionales por parte de esta organización. FTE comenzó a incautar fondos de las cuentas bancarias de la organización el 26 de agosto de 2005, pese a que el caso está siendo apelado en una corte arbitral y todavía no hay una decisión final.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner supports Tunisian human rights defendersposted on: 2005/11/17

17 November 2005 A press conference, on 16 November attended by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, at the Tunis headquarters of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), in effect, became the first unofficial meeting of the Citizens Summit on Information Technology (CSIS) The Tunisian government has systematically blocked the alternative summit’s preparatory meetings and planned workshops and events in flagrant breach of the right to freedom of expression and association. In doing so, the Tunisian Government has demonstrated contempt for the Geneva Principles* and for their obligations under the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and international human rights law.

Leading representatives of International and Tunisian Civil Society committed themselves to continuing the struggle for the basic rights to freedom of expression and association in Tunisia in front of the audience of over 200 journalists, diplomats and NGO members.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner supports Tunisian human rights defendersposted on: 2005/11/17

17 November 2005 A press conference, on 16 November attended by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Shirin Ebadi, at the Tunis headquarters of the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH), in effect, became the first unofficial meeting of the Citizens Summit on Information Technology (CSIS) The Tunisian government has systematically blocked the alternative summit’s preparatory meetings and planned workshops and events in flagrant breach of the right to freedom of expression and association. In doing so, the Tunisian Government has demonstrated contempt for the Geneva Principles* and for their obligations under the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and international human rights law.

Leading representatives of International and Tunisian Civil Society committed themselves to continuing the struggle for the basic rights to freedom of expression and association in Tunisia in front of the audience of over 200 journalists, diplomats and NGO members.