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OSCE Office concerned about violations of the presumption of innocence in criminal proceedings in Azerbaijan

Publishing date: 4 September 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Baku (closed)
What we do: Rule of law
BAKU, 4 September 2006- A report on Azerbaijan's adherence to the principle of presumption of innocence suggests that journalists, police officers, prosecutors and judges often treat suspicion of guilt and proof of criminal behaviour as...

OSCE Office in Yerevan visits penal colony for women and juveniles

Publishing date: 30 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Office in Yerevan (closed)
What we do: Human rights, Policing, Rule of law
YEREVAN, 30 August 2006- OSCE Office representatives and board members of the Public Monitoring Group for Penitentiary Institutions today visited the Abovian Women and Juvenile Colony to present school-related items...

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.

Serbian Broadcasting Law amendments ought to be withdrawn, OSCE Mission argues in analytical report

Publishing date: 11 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Serbia
What we do: Media freedom and development, Rule of law
BELGRADE, 11 August 2006- Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia today called on Serbian authorities to withdraw recently adopted Broadcasting Law Amendments, saying that some of them violate media freedom rights...

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's human rights office facilitates discussion on international trends and local perspectives in criminal justice in Central Asia

Publishing date: 7 August 2006
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
What we do: Education, Rule of law
ALMATY, 7 August 2006- The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today welcomed 25 criminal justice practitioners from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to a week-long Summer School...

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...