Human rights trends - 2013
Pro Bono Lawyer Contest and ranking list of law offices
For the tenth time, the Pro Bono Lawyer Award has been given by the Legal Clinics Foundation and the Rzeczpospolita daily. During the award-giving gala of 17 April 2013, Rzeczpospolita also bestowed diplomas for individuals and firms featured in the eleventh edition of the law offices ranking. 26 Apr 2013 »
Chief Commissioner of the Police to disclose information on GPS tracking
Upon the Helsinki Foundation’s application for judicial review, the Provincial Administrative Court has reversed the decisions of the Chief Commissioner of the Police who refused to answer the HFHR’s original question about Police statistics on the use of GPS as a covert investigative method. At the same time, the Court obliged the Chief Commissioner to give an answer to this question. 25 Apr 2013 »
The film "Torture in Belarus. Apocalypse": not just complaints and emotions, these are broken lives
On 15 April the première viewing of the film about torture and ill-treatment of people by the officers of security forces in Belarus was held in Vilnius Skalvija cinema . Also the discussion with the director, human rights defenders, former political prisoners and relatives of those who faced the violence from the side of law enforcement officials was organized. 22 Apr 2013 »
Judgment on journalist’s phone records collected by Central Anti-corruption Bureau
On Thursday, 16 April 2013, the Warsaw’s Court of Appeal heard the appeal in the personal interests infringement case brought by Bogdan Wróblewski, a journalist with Gazeta Wyborcza, against the Head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau. The claimant, now the appellee, alleged that the CAB had unlawfully acquired journalist’s telecommunication data, including his phone records, for a period of six months in the years 2005–2007. The first-instance court ruled for Mr Wróblewski. 18 Apr 2013 »
KGB finds "Belarus Press Photo-2011" album extremist, the photographers were summonsed to court
Forty one copies of the album "Belarus Press Photo-2011" were confiscated and considered as extremist according to the expert evaluation. The photographers and organizers of the contest "Belarus Press Photo' were summonsed to the court as "interested parties". 18 Apr 2013 »
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