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Human rights news: Archive: Events of 2001

18-12-2001		Allegra magazine: Pictures from Sanadinovo
13-12-2001		54 deaths in social home in 2001
11-12-2001		In Brief: Events of December 11 2001

22-11-2001		Local Mufti discusses restitution of mosque property with US Ambassador
13-11-2001		Meeting between Orthodox Christians and Muslims calls for struggle against 'destructive sects'

31-10-2001		High goverrnment official declares US criticism towards Bulgaria for religious freedom violations 'groundless'
29-10-2001		State Department International Religious Freedom Report: Bulgaria
24-10-2001		UN report says Bulgaria intolerant of homosexuals, Roma
11-10-2001		Amnesty International: Bulgaria: Disabled women condemned to slow death
08-10-2001		ECHR judgment in the case of Stankov and UMO "Ilinden" v. Bulgaria

12-09-2001		Pending sentences of 7 defendants in an unfair trial in Lybia

30-08-2001		Discrimination against Roma in the village of Oryahovica
22-08-2001		Appeal for banishing Roma from village
22-08-2001		Inmates protest in Sofia and Varna prisons
21-08-2001		Homeless child beaten by skinheads
15-08-2001		Man alleges police ill-treatment
12-08-2001		Corn thief lynched by locals
03-08-2001		Conference insists on adoption of Restitution of Church Property Act
01-08-2001		Restrictions on coverage of activities of new cabinet

31-07-2001		Violation of right to peaceful assembly of UMO "Ilinden"
27-07-2001		National Security Department officer threatens taxi driver with gun
26-07-2001		New claim against Zagorka brewery for 'discriminatory commercial'
23-07-2001		Conscript shot by military policeman
23-07-2001		Rom shot near Sliven
17-07-2001		Bulgarian asylum seekers in Norway threaten to go on hunger strike
16-07-2001		Norwegian organisations denounce treatment of Bulgarian asylum seekers
13-07-2001		Study of Islam during the next academic year
12-07-2001		Demolition of Roma neighbourhood in Sofia
12-07-2001		Influx of Bulgarian asylum seekers to Norway
05-07-2001		Rom shot near Kazanlak
03-07-2001		A mob of bigoted Orthodox believers attacks a group of Evangelicals
02-07-2001		Daniela Terziiska kept handcuffed for 9 days

29-06-2001		Two Roma killed near Yambol
28-06-2001		Rom killed near Lyaskovetz
27-06-2001		Police officer shoots girlfriend
22-06-2001		19-year-old university student shot dead in night club
21-06-2001		Rom dies of electric shock
13-06-2001		Bulgaria opens school doors for Gypsy children (reprinted from the New York Times)

30-05-2001		Bulgaria 2001: Amnesty International annual report
18-05-2001		Negative Opinion of CE Experts on Bulgarian Draft Denominations Act
17-05-2001		UMO "Ilinden" activists allege violation of their right to peaceful assembly
03-05-2001		World Press Freedom Day: BHC and Article 19 Defamation Charter
03-05-2001		Press release: Friendly settlement in Stefanov v. Bulgaria application

27-04-2001		Press release: Desegregation of the "Romani Schools"

12-03-2001		Decision on admissibility of Daruish Al-Nashif and Others v. Bulgaria application
05-03-2001		Prosecution opens investigation into UMO "Ilinden - PIRIN" leaflets
02-03-2001		Constitutional Court ruling on Aliens Act provisions

14-02-2001		New director-general of Bulgarian state radio elected
12-02-2001		Police officer shoots dead 31-year-old man

31-01-2001		Policeman detained in connection with the shooting of Eleonora Dimitrova
11-01-2001		Man dies in police raid
10-01-2001		Film documentary about the "revival process"
08-01-2001		Human rights activist accused of "obstructing the census process"
06-01-2001		"Che Guevarra" protesters detained by police

2000		Archive