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The Nepali cabinet’s decision on October 4, 2012, to promote a colonel suspected of involvement in war crimes to the rank of brigadier general is a slap in the face for the victims of Nepal’s protracted civil war, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the International Commission of Jurists said.

Kyrgyz law enforcement in the capital, Bishkek, prevent showing of the movie "I am Gay and Muslim," which was arbitrarily banned by officials.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, during an official visit to Moscow, 3 October 2012.

Human Rights Watch, along with two of Russia's top human rights defenders, participated in a press conference held by Interfax in Moscow on October 4, 2012 to publicize the threats.

Human rights activist and a member of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East advisory committee Ahmed Mansoor speaks during a press conference in Dubai on January 26, 2011. On his left is Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division.

The military court in northern Gaza City.

A voter casts her ballot in Gori during the Georgian parliamentary elections, 1 October 2012.

Zmitser Dashkevich, an opposition activist and a leader of the youth opposition movement Young Front, was convicted in March 2011 in connection with participation in peaceful protests following the December 2010 presidential elections.

At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.