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PACE must address the shrinking space for civil society. It must adopt resolutions to strengthen the protection and role of human rights defenders, and to prevent restrictions on NGO activities, in an increasingly worrying environment in many Council of Europe countries, especially Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation. These were the conclusions of discussions at the NGO side event on 27 January.

Georgia’s human rights record remained uneven in 2015, according to the 659-page World Report 2016, its 26th edition, where Human Rights Watch reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries.

Belgrade, 22nd January 2016. – In the evening between 21st and 22nd of January, unidentified attackers broke windows in the Human Rights House in Belgrade. Police arrived at the crime scene and we expect prompt reaction on identifying and appropriately sanctioning the attackers.

Ales Bialiatski, the head of the human rights center Viasna, has received a ruling from the department of enforcement of judgments that a part of his flat (in which he lives with his family) falls under arrest.

Кіраўнік Праваабарончага цэнтра “Вясна” Алесь Бяляцкі атрымаў пастанову аддзела прымусовага выканання Партызанскага раёна горада Мінска аб тым, што на долю кватэры, у якой ён пражывае з сям’ёй, накладзены арышт.

On 5 January Henadz Yakavitski was sentenced to death in Belarus. This case might even get in legal textbooks: the convicted man has been already sentenced to death earlier.

5 студзеня беларусу Генадзю Якавіцкаму быў вынесены смяротны прысуд. Гэты выпадак можа трапіць нават у падручнікі па юрыспрудэнцыі – да расстрэлу прысудзілі чалавека, які ўжо быў асуджаны на смерць раней.

HRHN strongly supports Civic Solidarity Platform opposition to recent developments affecting human rights protection and the state of democracy in Poland.

INFORMATION ON THE ELECTIONS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS – 2015