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• Date: 30/07/2010

  Turkey to stop imprisonment of Kurdish minors under antiterrorist law

  

  Hundreds of children remain in jail under accusation of belonging to terror organizations despite being arrested for throwing stones and chanting pro-Kurdish slogans in demonstrations · About 50 children have been released from prison this week after the enforcement of a new law.

• Date: 02/07/2010

  Cutback of Catalan Statute draws international attention

  

  US former president Jimmy Carter, Hungarian MEP from Romania László Tókés, Flemish N-VA party and Welsh Plaid Cymru, and also linguists from all over the world criticize the decision issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court early this week.

• Date: 03/06/2010

  EU and civil organizations warn against violations of human rights in Russia

  

  Reporters and activists are the main victims of violence in the Federation, particularly in the Caucasus republics · Dozens of organizations, Amnesty International among them, asked Brussels to put pressure on Moscow during the bilateral summit of May 31.

• 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: 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: 23/04/2010

  The World Forum for the Collective Rights of Peoples starts in Girona

  

  Delegations from Quebec, Basque Country, Faeroe Islands, Kurdistan and other 20 different stateless peoples and nations participate in a conference on globalization and the right to self-determination · The international delegations will also attend as international observers the consultation for Catalan independence to be held in Girona on Sunday.

• Date: 11/03/2010

  Crisis Group warns against 'radicalization' in Papua and recommends dialogue

  

  Year 2009 witnessed an increase of violence by one of the main Papuan pro-independence groups, the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), against the Indonesian government and foreign mining companies · According to International Crisis Group, a road map is needed to foster dialogue as frustrations 'are real'.

• Date: 05/02/2010

  Peoples and nations today: Tibet

  

  DOSSIER. Tibet is the oppressed nation par excellence and has drawn worldwide attention and solidarity. And yet the 'Free Tibet' campaigns launched in the last years by a Tibetan diaspora made up of more than 200,000 people have not been able to stop the repressive policies of the Chinese government, which is carrying out assimilation policies and promoting Han supremacy.

• Date: 14/01/2010

  Election year in Burma but little prospect of change for minorities

  

  FEATURE. Historic vote due to take place in Burma in 2010 risks being a show election legitimizing the military Junta · Fresh clashes expected between the Burmese military and the separatist Karen rebels, harshly repressed by the Government · The Junta rejects federalism or autonomy for minorities.

• Date: 07/01/2010

  Mass protests in Egypt against Copt killings

  

  Police clashed in Nag Hammadi with thousands of demonstrators protesting against the killing of 7 Coptic Christians, who were shot down on the Orthodox Christmas Eve when coming out of mass · It is the severest attack in recent years · Members of the Coptic Church say they had received death threats.