IHF Third Periodic Report

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IHF Third Periodic Report



The International Helsinki Federation has recently released the third,
summer 1999 issue of the "IHF Periodic Reports from the OSCE Region".
The "Reports" are published by the IHF on a regular basis. The
18-pages long report contains information on recent human rights
issues in some participating states of the Organization on Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); it is provided by IHF member
committees and partner NGOs. The IHF does not intend to issue a
political statement concerning the countries and their respective
issues described in this report. For more information on human rights
violations in the OSCE region, please visit the IHF web page,
http://www.ihf-hr.org 

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IHF Periodic Reports from the OSCE Region. Summer 1999

Table of Contents:

Albania: Police violence against journalists.

Azerbaijan: Journalists continue to fight for their rights;
defendants' rights in administrative cases upheld; journalists and
human rights activists visit prisons.

Belarus: Peaceful assemblies again attacked, participants arrested;
increasing pressure on the media.

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republic of Srpska): Obsolete judicial system
- no independence of judiciary; Helsinki Committee investigates prison
conditions; few returnees in 1999.

Bulgaria: Legal amendments to stop imprisonment of journalists; ethnic
Macedonian commemoration hindered.

Greece: "Operation Broom" against Immigrants; public appeal for the
recognition of minorities; exclusion of Roma continues; Jehovah's
Witnesses still face harassment.

Kyrgyzstan: Harassment against media increases; "tax inspections" and
arrest attempts at "Vecherni Bishkek."

Turkey: Amnesty scandal

United States: Police misconduct remains in focus; indefinite
detention of immigrants ruled unlawful; judicial system ambivalent
towards gender-based asylum claims; seven executions in June; Congress
report - sexual abuse of female prisoners a central problem in U.S.
prisons.  



Joachim Frank
(IHF Secretariat)
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