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Front Line News Archive
Posted on 2010/03/04
Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council High Level Segment, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Micheal Martin TD emphasised the central importance of "equal and inalienable rights" and paid special tribute to the legitimacy and importance of the work being done by human rights defenders. 
Posted on 2010/03/04
Secretary Clinton has announced the 10 winners of this year’s International Women of Courage (IWOC) award. The awardees are: Shukria Asil (Afghanistan), Col. Shafiqa Quraishi (Afghanistan), Androula Henriques (Cyprus), Sonia Pierre (Dominican Republic), Shadi Sadr (Iran), Ann Njogu (Kenya), Dr. Lee Ae-ran (Republic of Korea), Jansila Majeed (Sri Lanka), Sister Marie Claude Naddaf (Syria), and Jestina Mukoko (Zimbabwe).
Posted on 2010/03/02
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Ms. Margaret Sekaggya, and the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Mr. Frank LaRue, urge the Ugandan Government to drop, entirely, the the "anti-homosexuality" bill now pending before the Ugandan parliament.
Posted on 2010/03/02
Front Line has just launched the 2010 edition of Dispatches which is the annual review of its work in the period January December 2009.
Posted on 2010/02/25
Human rights defenders and members of the international human rights community have sent a Joint Open Letter to the Guatemalan authorities demanding action on foot of killings of human rights defenders and protesting at the general climate of insecurity.
Posted on 2010/02/23
The CCHR activists - Cheab Chiev and Khoem Sarum - were today acquitted on the charge of Disinformation along with Radio Free Asia Journalist Sok Serei and community representatives Ny San and Seb Sein.
Posted on 2010/02/22
The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, OMCT and the International Federation for Human Rights - FIDH), Human Rights House Foundation, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Front Line and ARTICLE 19 condemn the pressure and intimidation exerted by Georgian authorities against leading investigative journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze, and denounce a continuous defamation campaign against Mr. Komakhidze.
Posted on 2010/02/22
 While human rights defenders from around the world gathered in Washington for the Human Rights Summit hosted by Human Rights First and Freedom House Kazak human rights defender Yevgeniy Zhovtis addressed the summit from his prison cell.
Posted on 2010/02/18
Further to the Urgent Appeal issued in relation to death threats against human rights defender Leocadio Juracán and the intimidation of other members of Comité Campesino del Altiplano - CCDA, which is part of the Labour, Indigenous, and Peasant Movement of Guatemala (MSICG), Front Line regrets to announce that, on 17 February 2010, at aproximately 5:30p.m. Mr Octavio Roblero, leader of of the natural resources protection and resistance front (FRENA) affiliated to the national front for the defence of public services and natural resources (FNL) which is part of MSICG, was assassinated.
Posted on 2010/02/18
Front Line has recently learned that, on 31 January 2010, the Court of Cassation in Syria rejected Mr Haitham Al-Maleh's appeal against the decision by the Supreme Military Investigation Judge in Damascus to confirm the charges against him of “conveying false news within Syria that could debilitate the morale of the nation”, “insulting the president” and “insulting the judiciary”.
Posted on 2010/02/17
Front Line has recently learned that, on 31 January 2010, the Court of Cassation in Syria rejected Muhanad Alhasani's appeal against a decision by an investigating judge charging him with “weakening national sentiment” and “spreading false information that could debilitate the morale of the nation and harm the reputation of the state abroad”.
Posted on 2010/02/10
(Moscow, February 9, 2010) - The Russian authorities should investigate the arbitrary detention of three human rights advocates in Chechnya and hold those responsible accountable, Amnesty International, Civil Rights Defenders, Front Line, and Human Rights Watch said today. The organizations called on the government to ensure a safe working environment for human rights organizations in Chechnya, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised in January 2010.
Posted on 2010/02/03
Human rights defender Mr Marou Amadou has been condemned by the Court of Appeal of Niamey to 3 months imprisonment, suspended sentence. The sentence has been appealed to the Supreme Court. Three charges against Marou Amadou, including participation to an un-registered association and crimes against the security of the State, remain pending. The trial, held on 11 January, was observed by representatives of the EU delegation, the French embassy and the Swiss Cooperation.
Posted on 2010/02/02
On 28 January 2010, Saharawi human rights defender Dagja Lachgar was temporarily released following three months and twenty days in detention in Sale military prison, Morocco. Human rights defender Ali Salem Tamek, Brahim Dahane, Ahmad Anasiri, Yahdih Ettarrouzi, Saleh Lebayhi, and Rachid Sghayar, who remain in detention in Sale prison, have declared that they will commence a 48-hour hunger strike on 4 February 2009, in protest against the ill-treatment that they are subjected to in detention.
Posted on 2010/01/29
Front Line welcomes the release of human rights lawyer Ms Filiz Kalayci, executive board member of the Human Rights Association (IHD), on 28 January, after eight months in detention. Her release was ordered during the hearing held, on the same day, before the 11th Heavy Penal Court of Ankara. She is charged of 'aiding an illegal organisation' – the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). The charges remain pending and the trial will resume on 10 June 2010.
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