Central Broadcasting Service (CBS) radio journalist Ronald Ssembuusi has been told by a court in Kalangala on 28 November 2012 that he will face trial after accusations of defamation were made against him by Central Uganda region district Chairman David Kikoola.
On 28 November 2012, new banners containing the message 'Here lives a foreign agent' appeared in Moscow on the buildings of the international historical and civil rights society Memorial and the For Human Rights movement.
On 26 November 2012, Uzbek human rights defender Mr Farhodhon Muhtarov received documents certifying that he and his family have been granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
'Countries at a Crossroads' is an annual report by Freedom House analysing democratic governance in 35 states worldwide who are 'at a critical crossroads in determining their political future'. This year the Middle East forms a particular region of interest due to what has come to be known as the 'Arab Spring'.
On 26 November 2012, around 4pm, human rights defender Mr Antonio González Rodiles was released after 19 days in Acosta police station in Havana. In order to obtain his freedom he had to pay a fine of 800 Cuban pesos (approx. 23 EUR). Antonio had been detained during a wave of arrests and beatings of human rights defenders on 7 November 2012.
On 26 November 2012, the office premises of Human Rights Centre Viasna were confiscated. This appropriation is the latest in a series of moves against the group by the authorities since the jailing of their chairman Ales Bialiatski
A recently released Spanish film produced by the Academy Award winning actor Javier Bardem explores the human rights situation in Western Sahara. At its centre are the more than 100,000 displaced Saharawi living in refugee camps throughout Algeria such as the one visited by Bardem in 2008 that inspired this project.
On 21 November 2011, the Federal Law 121-F3 , which brands non-governmental organisations (NGOs) receiving funds from abroad as “foreign agents”, came into force in the Russian Federation.
The destruction of a human rights monument in Mendoza is seen by local human rights lawyers as the latest in a series of threats and defamations against them.
On 16 November, Front Line Defenders published a report on the Corrib Monitoring Initiative. The document includes several recommendations regarding the handling of protests about the Corrib Gas Project.
On 14 November 2012, human rights defender Sayed Yousif Al-Muhafdha was released without charge after being brought before the prosecutor general earlier that day. He had been in detention since 2 November.
On 12 November 2012, a magistrate in Banjul rendered a judgement of acquittal in a protracted criminal trial involving two prominent Gambian human rights defenders, Dr Isatou Touray and Ms Amie Bojang-Sissoho.
On the morning of 7 November 2012 new defamatory posters appeared throughout several areas of Mendoza in what appears to be an ongoing smear campaign to discredit several human rights lawyers.
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