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• Date: 13/05/2010

  Iran executes 4 Kurdish activists and another Iranian man

  

  They were accused of belonging to the PKK and the PJAK and therefore, 'enmity against God', an offence punished with the death penalty · Human rights organizations say the five were denied fair trail and were tortured and forced to 'confess' under duress · The state refused to return the dead bodies to the families.

• Date: 13/05/2010

  Mapuches outraged by Catalan university's honoris causa to Michelle Bachelet

  NEWS IN BRIEF. Mapuches remind that under Bachelet’s presidency there were severe acts of repression against Mapuches and several indigenous activists struggling for communal land were killed.

• Date: 12/05/2010

  Scottish Gaelic used first time ever in the European Council

  NEWS IN BRIEF. Mike Russell, minister of the Scottish government, represented the UK in the Education, Youth and Culture Council.

• Date: 11/05/2010

  Indigenous peoples from Ecuador, on the warpath with government’s Water Bill

  

  Clashes between police and the indigenous movement acting under CONAIE’s umbrella go on after native people seized the Parliament in Quito · Indigenous peoples argue the new legislation on water was endorsed 'behind Ecuador’s people back'b but say their protests are not aimed at overthrowing Correa’s government.

• Date: 10/05/2010

  Ar Redadeg, the feast of the Breton language, hits the road

  

  A relay race will tour more than 1,200 km in 6 days all over Brittany to promote Breton language and culture · The initiative gets inspiration from the traditional Korrika held in the Basque Country.

• Date: 07/05/2010

  Minor changes for pro-sovereignty parties in Westminster elections

  

  Sinn Féin, Plaid Cymru, SNP and SDLP retain their seats · Alliance between Welsh and Scottish nationalists may have an important effect on a British parliament with no absolute majority, but LibDems hold the key to a next British government · Unionists in Northern Ireland lose a seat in favour of the Alliance Party.

• Date: 06/05/2010

  Ethnic tension grows in Kyrgyzstan

  After the revolt caused by the flight of the president, the interim government has not reestablished order · Kyrgiz and Uzbek people have fought each other in the south of the country, while clashes between Meskhetian Turks and Kyrgizs have taken place near Bishkek, the capital of the State.

• Date: 05/05/2010

  Irish civil organizations come together to launch a Gaelic medium school

  The project for a new 'Gaelscoil' does not have the permission of the Department of Education · Organisations warn against the administration’s new criterion for opening schools as government has not recognised any Gaelic medium school since 2008.

• Date: 04/05/2010

  Ethnic groups from North Caucasus, among the world’s most threatened peoples

  

  The Russian Federation ranks first in the list of European offenders · Somalia, Sudan and Iraq top the ranking · Russia, China, Thailand and Venezuela, among others, have risen positions in the 2010 Minority Rights Group report 'Peoples Under Threat'.

• Date: 04/05/2010

  Talks between Kosovo and Serbia may begin this year

  The two countries are likely to discuss on decentralization, cultural heritage and the North Kosovo issue