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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announces in a video message to the Human Rights Council that she will visit China in May. SOUNDBITE
"It is a very fair judgement and I am satisfied", says Alexei Navalny after the European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia's repeated arrests of the opposition leader were politically motivated and orders the state to pay a 50,000 Euro fine. SOUNDBITE (completes VID1264546_EN)
Anne Hathaway is set to be honoured with the HRC National Equality Award from the Human Rights Campaign next week.
The Berlin Club International League for Human Rights awarded Edward Snowden, for uncovering the biggest espionage scandal of all time. The former NSA employee spoke via satellite from Moscow at the ceremony.
The combination of the two winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, Hindu and Muslim, Indian and Pakistani, was chosen because they join in a common struggle for education and against extremism.
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, says she fears disruption and arrests at her husband's funeral, planned for Friday 1st March in Moscow. Navalny's burial is set to take place at the nearby Borisov cemetery, a short walk from the banks of the river Moskva. SOUNDBITE