RFE/RL Watchdog
1/27/2011 5:25:24 PM
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Interview: Rights Activists Supplementing 'Meager Meal' From Mainstream Media
RFE/RL correspondent Kristin Deasy spoke with Human Rights Watch's Carroll Bogert in connection with an essay she wrote titled "Whose News?" that introduces HRW's newly released World Report 2011. More 
Phony Cops Raid Belarus Activist's Home
Danila Klyauko, a member of the opposition United Civic Party, told RFE/RL that the four people refused to present a search warrant to him. One of them had a video camera and filmed the search procedure. More 
Second Kazakh Hunger Striker Ill
Another of the six women on hunger strike in a western Kazakh town has been hospitalized. Gulaiym Topaeva was taken to hospital early today with heart problems. The women are demanding that people who have been waiting a long time for state housing be given places to live and that at least one member of their families offered a job at the KazMunaiGaz energy company. More 
KGB Detains Belarusian Journalist
Belarusian journalist Henadz Barbarych was briefly detained by the Committee for State Security (KGB) while interviewing relatives of jailed activists. More 
Will Davos Confront Medvedev On Khodorkovsky?
In a new twist on their "Ask a Leader" format, organizers of that ruthlessly exclusive forum of the megarich and überpowerful, the World Economic Forum at Davos, have vowed to pose three "crowdsourced questions" to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Questioners so far want to know about the jailed oligarch-run-afoul Mikhail Khodorkovsky. More |
