Russian prosecutors are investigating a recent art exhibit at a leading human rights center on suspicion that it incited religious hatred, officials said Thursday.

The respected Sakharov Museum, founded to promote democracy and human rights championed by the late Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, had already been targeted by authorities.

In 2005 its director Yuri Samodurov and a colleague were convicted of inciting religious hatred and fined in connection with a 2003 exhibit «Caution, Religion» that was condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Bosnian President Haris Silajdzic met in Washington Thursday with the leader of the Serb entity in Bosnia and said they failed to reach agreement on proposals for ending long standing ethnic divisions in the country.

"The Serbs want status quo as a permanent solution," Silajdzic said, alluding to the divisions between the two Bosnian mini-states, one led by Serbs and the other by Bosniaks and Croats.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

An evangelical pastor remained detained in Uzbekistan Friday, April 27, after he was arrested in Muynak a city in Uzbekistan’s troubled region of Karakalpakstan, fellow believers said.

Barnabas Fund, an organization helping Christians in predominantly Muslim nations, said Pastor Salavat Serikbaev was arrested last week on three charges of "incitement to religious hatred", "running an illegal religious organization" and "distributing materials promoting religious extremism".   FULL ARTICLE LINK

A Serbian war crimes court on Tuesday found four Serb paramilitaries guilty for the 1995 murder of six Bosnian Muslim youths in the last days of the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

The sentences for the men, all members of the notorious Scorpions paramilitary group, ranged from 5 years to the maximum sentence of 20 years. One defendant was acquitted.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

Four members of an ultraconservative Muslim sect have been arrested following a raid on a mountain terrorist training camp in Serbia.

A large cache of weapons, ammunition, hand grenades, face-masks and plastic explosive with detonators was also discovered at a cave near Novi Pazar.

A judge ordered the four Serbian nationals to be detained for 30 days to allow police and intelligence officials to investigate their alleged activities at the training site.   FULL ARTICLE LINK

The prosecutor's office of Semipalatinsk, East Kazakhstan, has suspended the Evangelic Christian Baptists religious organization due to a lack of registration.

"As a result of a check by the city prosecutor's office, an administrative case was opened and sent to the special administrative court of Semipalatinsk," a statement by the Kazakh Prosecutor's General Office says.   FULL ARTICLE LINK