Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momesori, a Protestant pastor and member of
an ethnic group native to Bioko Island, has been detained since October
2003 without charge or trial.
A Latvian organization for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people is planning to hold a Gay
Pride event in the centre of Latvia’s capital, Riga on 31 May.
The UN General Assembly will elect, in direct and individual elections
and by secret ballot, 15 new members of the Human Rights Council on 21
May 2008.
Housing rights activist Ye Guozhu is serving a four-year prison sentence after he applied for permission to hold a demonstration against forced evictions in Beijing.
Russia: 22-year-old Artur Akhmatkhanov was grabbed by masked
soldiers and bundled into an armoured personnel carrier in 2003; he has not
been seen since.
