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HEIDI HAUTALA<br />
Euroopan parlamentin jäsen<br />
ihmisoikeusalivaliokunnan<br />
puheenjohtaja<br />
tunnetaan monipuolisena<br />
vihreänä vaikuttajana<br />
Erityisesti ihmisoikeudet,<br />
avoimuus, globaali<br />
oikeudenmukaisuus ja<br />
ympäristövastuullinen<br />
lainsäädäntö ovat Heidin<br />
ominta toiminta-aluetta<br />
HUMAN RIGHTS DIARY<br />
14th September<br />
CONCERN OVER THE CRIMINAL CASE<br />
AGAINST OLEG ORLOV<br />
CHAIRWOMAN OF EUROPEAN Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights expressed on<br />
13th of September, at the meeting of the committee, great concern over the ongoing<br />
case against Russian human rights defender Mr Oleg Orlov, winner of the 2009 European<br />
Parliament Sakharov-prize for freedom of thought. The first hearing concerning<br />
criminal charges, case No. 310555, of libel against Mr Orlov was held today at District<br />
Court No. 63 in Khamovniki district in Moscow...<br />
13th September<br />
THE EU SHOULD NOT REVISE ITS POLICY ON CUBA<br />
WELCOMING THE FOUR Cuban ex-prisoners, Human Rights Subcommittee Chair Heidi<br />
Hautala (Greens/EFA, FI), said that “they had gone through a very difficult time. Conditions<br />
of imprisonment were very harsh: bad hygiene and sanitary conditions, excessive<br />
heat and humidity, poor alimentation, solitary confinement.<br />
We acknowledge and admire your strength and endurance, your faith and integrity<br />
to endure these very hard circumstances”. Ms Hautala also underlined that “releasing<br />
some of the prisoners and then sending them straight into exile is only partially a positive<br />
step. Another 115 political prisoners are still behind bars in Cuba.”...<br />
10th September<br />
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT SUBCOMMITTEE<br />
ON HUMAN RIGHTS AUTUMN HEARINGS<br />
SUBCOMMITTEE ON Human Rights will hold on Monday 13th of September its first meeting<br />
of the autumn term. The Committee will discuss the upcoming review of the UN<br />
Human Rights Council, human rights situation in Colombia, the release of political<br />
prisoners from Cuba, the controversial amendment to penal code of Tunisia and prison<br />
conditions in Kazakhstan.<br />
This autumn the Subcommittee will discuss human rights in the Western Balkans,<br />
death penalty, situation in prisons in Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, elimination<br />
of violence against women...<br />
Read more at www.heidihautala.net<br />
Tutustu Vihreät/EVA -ryhmän toimintaan Euroopan<br />
parlamentissa osoitteessa www.greens-efa.org
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