Ninth anniversary of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze's abduction and killing

The rally was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the disappearance of politician Viktar Hanchar and businessman Anatol Krasovsky, whose whereabouts are still unknown.

A court in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk has fined an opposition activist for "unsanctioned public action"

In a letter, a leading pro-government figure calls on Khamenei to apologise for the actions of his men who beat and killed

Iranian reformist groups, still alive and active despite brutal suppression, have announced that they will launch new demonstrations against President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on "Day of Jerusalem" this year

It is not every day that a former head of the world's largest ruling communist party discovers that parliamentary democracy is the best way forward for his country

Says the country's biggest secular news group owes billions of dollars in back taxes and fines -- so huge that it would mean the closure of leading opposition papers and TV stations, leaving the ruling party and its allies in control of the press

Afghan journalists are calling for a boycott on reporting information about the Taliban in response to its continual kidnapping of journalists

Former Presidential Candidates Under Pressure September 8 -- Security forces raided the office of former presidential candidate Mehdi Karubi, who recently publicized accounts of rape in Iranian prisons

Viktor Kovtunovsky staged a public action on September 9 in support of the director of the nongovernmental group Kazakh Bureau for Human Rights, Yevgeny Zhovtis.