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OSCE media freedom representative concerned over jailing of Turkmenistan journalists

Publishing date: 28 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
What we do: Human rights, Media freedom and development, Media pluralism, Rule of law, Safety of journalists
VIENNA, 28 August 2006- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, today criticised the sentencing of journalists in Turkmenistan and condemned the lack of transparency in the handling of the cases.

OSCE Chairman welcomes Russia's suspension of extraditions of refugees, praises Kazakhstan for positive steps

Publishing date: 16 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights
BRUSSELS, 16 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today said he was pleased by Russia's decision to suspend the extradition of 12 refugees and an asylum-seeker to Uzbekistan...

OSCE Chairman criticizes Kyrgyzstan for extraditions, calls on Russian authorities not to deport refugees to Uzbekistan

Publishing date: 10 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship
What we do: Human rights, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 10 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today criticized Kyrgyzstan for extraditing four refugees and one asylum-seeker, all Uzbek citizens, to Uzbekistan...

OSCE supports public monitoring of pre-trial detention centres in Armenia

Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 7 August 2006- Human rights NGOs today began monitoring the conditions in pre-trial detention centres as part of a project supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights...

OSCE Chairman deeply concerned at Belarusian court verdict against would-be election monitors

Publishing date: 4 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Office in Minsk (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Elections, Rule of law
BRUSSELS, 4 August 2006- The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, today voiced deep concern at guilty verdicts and subsequent prison sentences handed to four Belarusians...

OSCE media watchdog's office ends training seminar to improve reporting of governmental information in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 19 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Democratization, Human rights, Education, Media freedom and development, Media laws, Media pluralism, Media self-regulation
BAKU, 20 July 2006- An OSCE-organized seminar aiming to improve public access to government information by strengthening relations between authorities and the media concluded today in Baku...

OSCE Centre in Dushanbe organizes summer school on international law and human rights

Publishing date: 17 July 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe
What we do: Human rights, Education, Rule of law
VARZOB, Tajikistan, 17 July 2006- University students are learning about human rights and mechanisms to protect those rights during a summer school co-organized by the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe and Tajikistan's Bureau on Human Rights and the Rule of Law...