Front Line Defenders issued an open letter today to Roza Otunbayeva, President of the Kyrgyz Republic, as appeal of human rights defender Mr Azimjan Askarov begins on 29 November 2011.
International human rights organisations urge the Council of the Republic, the upper chamber of the Belarusian Parliament, to quash recent legislative amendments that impose limitations on freedom of assembly and association and severely restrict the work of Belarusian civil society groups, especially those working on human rights or related issues.
A coalition of international human rights organisations, including Front Line, today (Thursday 22 July 2010) called on the Government of Tunisia expressing their deep concern regarding a newly adopted amendment to the Criminal Code of Tunisia that risks to further hinder the work carried out by Tunisian human rights defenders and undermine the protection and promotion of human rights in the country.
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