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  • Detained Navalny Slams ‘Lawlessness,’ Calls For Protests

    Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny said a hearing he faced at a police station on January 18 was a mockery of justice and called for street protests, as Western leaders demanded his release. Navalny was detained the previous evening at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany. He was being treated in Berlin after being nearly killed with a military-grade poison in an attack that an investigation showed was carried out by Russian security service officers.

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  • A Day In The Life Of An Iranian Nurse On The COVID-19 Front Line

    Iranian nurse Somayeh Hosseinzadeh had to work back-to-back shifts away from her family for the first few weeks of the coronavirus pandemic and says her department at Tehran’s Shariati Hospital was like a “war scene,” with elderly people and pregnant women dying around her. Iran has reported over 1.2 million COVID-19 infections and over 50,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, though the country has been accused of covering up deaths.

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  • Navalny Says Putin ‘Scared,’ Calls Detention Hearing ‘Lawlessness’

    Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny appeared at a hearing on January 18, the day after he was detained at a Moscow airport upon his arrival from Germany. He was being treated in Berlin after being poisoned in Russia in August. His spokeswoman posted a video of Navalny speaking at the hearing, which he labeled “the highest degree of lawlessness.”

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  • Navalny Detained At Moscow Airport

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  • ‘I Am Not Afraid’: Defiant Navalny Detained At Moscow Airport

    Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was detained at the passport control desk on arrival at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on January 17. He had returned after six months in Germany being treated for a near-fatal poisoning which, according to extensive evidence presented by Bellingcat and other Western media, was carried out on Kremlin orders.

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  • Serbian Freelancers Protest Retroactive Taxes

    Hundreds of freelancers and online workers marched through central Belgrade on January 16 to protest a recent law that requires them to pay income taxes for the last five years. The Serbian Tax Administration sent out thousands of tax bills in October 2020. Organized by an informal group known as the Association Of Internet Workers In Serbia, demonstrators called the practice “tax prosecution,” claiming the measure has been adopted without prior discussion. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has said that protests are not a solution as “taxes must be paid.” The association is calling for talks with the government.

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  • Ukrainians Sing And Dance The Old Year Out And The New One In

    Old and young danced, sang, and marched from morning till morning in Krasnoyilsk, a village in southern Ukraine close to the Romanian border, to see in the new year according to the popular Malanka tradition — sometimes referred to as the Ukrainian Mardi Gras. Falling near the end of the month-long holiday season, Malanka is how Ukrainians celebrate Old New Year, according to the Julian calendar, on January 13-14. Although details differ from region to region, generally it entails lots of food, drink, caroling, concerts, parades, good-natured pranks, and garish costumes.

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  • ‘Music Takes Your Mind Off War And Death’: Ukrainian Violinist Plays In The Trenches

    Roman is a trained violinist who signed up to fight Russia-backed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. He takes out his violin and plays for half an hour once or twice a week and says music distracts him from the war and the possibility of dying. According to the United Nations, more than 13,000 people have died as a result of the conflict — including over 3,000 civilians — since war broke out in April 2014.

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  • Snow Heaps More Misery On Migrants Living In Bosnian Forest

    Snow and low temperatures have brought more misery for migrants living in a makeshift camp in a forest above the town of Velika Kladusa in northwestern Bosnia-Herzegovina. They set up the camp because they say they have been denied access to an official temporary shelter for migrants in the area. They say they’re struggling to find food, drinking water, warm clothes, and firewood. Migrants come to this northwest corner of Bosnia seeking passage into nearby Croatia and the European Union.

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  • Interventions during the regular sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in 2020

    Watch FORUM-ASIA statements delivered during the Regular Sessions of the UN Human Rights Council.

    Click here for an overview of FORUM-ASIA’s interventions, statements and events during the 45th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

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    Learn more about FORUM-ASIA’s UN Advocacy Programme, click here

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  • Belarusians Demand Lukashenka Resign

    For the 22nd Sunday in a row, opposition supporters took to the streets of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, to protest against the government of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

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  • RFE/RL Journalist Expelled From Polling Station In Kazakhstan

    An RFE/RL journalist has been expelled from a polling station by local election authorities saying that he did not have a negative COVID test. The incident happened on January 10 in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, as the country held local and parliamentary elections.

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  • Kyrgyzstan Votes In Presidential Election Amid Extreme Cold, Delays

    Kyrgyz citizens went to the polls on January 10 in an election that is expected to confirm nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov’s hold on power. Voters are also choosing between the current parliamentary system and a presidential system in a referendum. There were technical glitches and delays at some polling stations, including at a university in Bishkek, where officials blamed extreme cold for malfunctioning voting machines. The cold weather was also blamed for low turnout.

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  • Protesters Detained In Kazakhstan Amid Parliamentary Elections

    Dozens of activists were detained on January 10 in at least three of Kazakhstan’s main cities, including the capital, Nur-Sultan, amid local and parliamentary elections. Protesters rallied in the country’s largest city, Almaty, calling for a boycott of the vote and denouncing authoritarian ex-President Nursultan Nazarbaev’s Nur Otan, the ruling party since 1999.

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  • Mini-Protests Continue Across Belarus

    Protesters carrying banned white-and-red national flags marched in parks and residential areas in several towns on January 9 demanding the resignation of Alyaksandr Lukashenka and accountability for those responsible for an often violent crackdown against opposition protesters. Demonstrations have been going on since the August 9 presidential election seen as rigged in favor of Lukashenka. In an effort to avoid detention, protesters have resorted to flash-mob tactics and engage in smaller and shorter marches outside city centers as opposed to large-scale demonstrations that have become an easier target for the security forces.

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  • FORUM-ASIA’s Wishes for 2021!

    Watch the video where Shamini Darshni Kaliemuthu, Executive Director of FORUM-ASIA, expresses her and FORUM-ASIA’s wishes for 2021!

    Our New Year Wish is for all people everywhere to be able to enjoy their liberty and freedom protected under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

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  • The Dump On The Drina: Trash Swamps River In Bosnia-Herzegovina

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  • 2020 Wrap-up video

    Celebrating the end of 2020 and the end of our #FA4HumanRights campaigns for the    Human Rights Month, FORUM-ASIA is glad to have released the ‘2020 Wrap-up video’ where our Programmes reveal more information about the work conducted over the past year and share some of our success stories in the promotion and protection of human rights across various countries in Asia!
    Please click below to watch the full video to learn more about FORUM-ASIA’s highlights of 2020:

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  • Sadyr Japarov: From Convicted Kidnapper To Kyrgyz President?

    Sadyr Japrov is considered the front-runner in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election on January 10. A little more than three months ago, he was in prison. He said charges that he took part in an attempted hostage-taking scheme were politically motivated. He was freed during unrest surrounding annulled parliamentary elections in October. We look at the up-and-down career of this populist politician.

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  • Mad Maps, Part 4: Kaliningrad: The Tiny Russian ‘Ham’ Inside An EU ‘Sandwich’

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  • Starving, Weak, And Penniless: Russians Try Life On Minimum Wage

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  • Mad Maps, Part 4: Kaliningrad: The Tiny Russian Ham Inside An EU Sandwich

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  • ‘A Chance To Return To Normal Life’: Russians React After Getting Sputnik-V Vaccine

    Russians have been telling RFE/RL about their experiences with the new Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine after the country began a mass vaccination program. President Vladimir Putin said on December 2 that 2 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine would be made available within days. A total of 150,000 people were vaccinated by December 25. According to a new poll, only about one-third of Russians are willing to be vaccinated.

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  • Russian Security Forces Raid Home Of Navalny Lawyer Sobol

    Security video shows Russian officers taping over a camera before pounding on the door of Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer for Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation. Sobol also shared footage of her reaction as she waited inside with her husband and child before the officers took her in for questioning on December 25. Authorities opened a criminal case against Sobol for trespassing after she rang the doorbell of a Federal Security Agency (FSB) agent who has been implicated in the poisoning of Navalny with a deadly toxin. (YouTube/NavalnyLive)

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  • Maia Sandu Takes Oath Of Office As New Moldovan President

    Maia Sandu was sworn in as the new president of Moldova after taking the oath of office at a ceremony in the capital, Chisinau, on December 24. Sandu is a former World Bank economist who favors closer ties to the European Union and the United States. She was elected last month after a clear runoff victory against Russia-backed Igor Dodon.

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  • Bulldozers Roll Into Georgian Shantytown As Residents Look On

    The authorities in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, have ordered a clampdown on what they say are illegally constructed homes on state-owned land, demolishing over a dozen houses in a small settlement on the outskirts of the capital. Nugzar Aluashvili and his six children live in the settlement and watched as the bulldozers moved in. Their plight caught the attention of their fellow Georgians on social media.

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  • Lifestyles Of Kazakhstan’s Rich And Politically Connected

    A villa in Cannes, a Swiss chateau, an entire block in central London: those are just a few of the investments made by relatives of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, who resigned in 2019. In an extensive investigation, RFE/RL journalists have documented the vast wealth acquired by the former first family during nearly three decades of Nazarbaev’s rule.

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  • Iconic Bosnian City Holds First Local Polls In 12 Years

    Ballots were cast on December 20 in local elections in Mostar, a historic city in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Among early voters was Irma Baralija, a local politician who has won a lawsuit at the European Court of Human Rights against the Bosnian state for failing to hold municipal polls in Mostar. Disputes over the city’s power-sharing structure had been stuck in a stalemate since 2008.

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  • Armenian Prime Minister Heckled During March To Mourn War Victims

    Thousands of Armenians marched through the capital, Yerevan, on December 19 to commemorate the soldiers killed in a six-week conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region in which Azerbaijan made significant territorial gains. The conflict and the fatalities on the Armenian side have increased pressure on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian who is facing calls to resign after being accused by the opposition of mishandling the conflict by accepting a Russian-brokered cease-fire last month. Pashinian led the march to the Erablur military cemetery on the first of three days of mourning. Although he was flanked by his supporters, shouts of “Nikol is a traitor!” could be heard along the way and outside the cemetery.

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  • Lines Of Hearses At Hospital Challenge Official COVID-19 Death Toll In Tatarstan

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