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Chairman-in-Office welcomes pardon of Kyrgyz human rights activist Turgunaliyev

Publishing date: 22 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Democratization, Human rights
BUCHAREST, 22 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Romanian Foreign Minister Mircea Geoana, welcomes the decision taken by the Kyrgyz President, Askar Akayev, to sign a decree on pardoning the well-known human...

New Head appointed for Skopje Mission

Publishing date: 22 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Border management, Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 22 August 2001 (OSCE)- Ambassador Craig Jenness from Canada has been appointed as new Head of the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. He took up his duties on 20 August. Prior to this new position, Ambassador Jenness has been...

Freimut Duve: independent newspaper confiscated in Belarus

Publishing date: 21 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Media freedom and development, Media pluralism
VIENNA, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- On 17 August, 400,000 copies of a special issue of the independent Belarus newspaper Nasha Svaboda were confiscated at the private publishing house Magic in Minsk by police from the Committee for Financial...

Skopje Mission strongly condemns destruction of Lesok Monastery

Publishing date: 21 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, National minority issues, Reform and co-operation in the security sector
SKOPJE, 21 August 2001 (OSCE)-- The OSCE Mission to Skopje strongly condemns the destruction of the Lesok Monastery in the early hours of today. According to first findings, the destruction seems to be a deliberate and premeditated...

OSCE organizes civic education summer camp for students in Tajikistan

Publishing date: 17 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Democratization
DUSHANBE, 17 August 2001 (OSCE)-- From 20 August to 3 September, the OSCE Mission to Tajikistan organizes a two-week summer camp for university students from the Sught Province in North Tajikistan...

Kosovo Media Appeals Board reviews case of Epoka E Re vs. Temporary Media Commissioner

Publishing date: 16 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission in Kosovo
What we do: Media freedom and development
PRISTINA, 16 August 2001 (OSCE)- Today, the Kosovo Media Appeals Board met to consider the decision of the Temporary Media Commissioner on 20 February 2001 to impose on the owner(s) and publisher(s) of the newspaper \"Epoka E Re\"...

OSCE Skopje Mission rejects allegations

Publishing date: 15 August 2001
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Skopje
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Media freedom and development
SKOPJE, 15 August 2001 (OSCE)-- In response to allegations from some media and from the Macedonian Ministry of Interior, which have already been corrected by Minister Boshkovski on 14 August, the OSCE Mission to Skopje would like to state the following: