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У сумесным лісце да прэзідэнта Ільхама Аліева 64 няўрадавыя арганізацыі з Сеткі Дамоў правоў чалавека заклікаюцьулады Азербайджана да неадкладнага і безумоўнага вызвалення праваабаронцаў Лэйлы Юнус, Арыфа Юнуса іРасула Джафарава, зняцця ўсіх абвінавачванняў супраць іх.

The currently applicable statutory regulations governing the rules of access of secret services to telecommunication data violate the constitutional right to privacy, the Constitutional Tribunal ruled last week.

Last week, Rasul Jafarov, a leading human rights defender in Azerbaijan, has been arrested by the Azerbaijani authorities. His arrest is related to the mounting repression from the Azerbaijani authorities against civic society activists and opposition parties.

Human rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus have been arrested on 30 July 2014. Leyla Yunus was sentenced to 3 months pre-trial detention. On 5 August 2014, Arif Yunus was also sentenced to 3 months pre-trial detention. We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus, as we see this as part of the persecution against human rights defenders in Azerbaijan.

Rasul Jafarov has been arrested and sentenced to 3 months of pre-trial detention, a few days after the same sentence was upheld against Leyla Yunus. In Azerbaijan, human rights defenders are criminalised and their NGOs blocked. We call upon the immediate and unconditional release of Leyla Yunus and Rasul Jafarov.

Since 2003, immigration laws have been applicable that at the UE level govern the right of third country citizens to family reunification. Nevertheless, the procedure is riddled with a whole range of practical problems. Individual EU Member States differ in their interpretation and application of laws based on directives. Currently, the European Commission is carrying out a consultation of guidelines aimed to standardise the practice in this regard. The HFHR has taken part in this consultation.

The European Court of Human Rights has entered judgments in the cases brought by applications of Al-Nashiri and Abu Zubaydah, allegedly detained and tortured in a CIA secret prison in Poland. The judges unanimously ruled that a number of human rights violations had occurred in the cases of both applicants, pointing to abuses of the prohibition of torture, the right to a fair trial or right to personal freedom and safety. The Court also criticised the Polish government for the lack of cooperation during the case which resulted in a breach of the Convention’s Article 38.

The participants of the Summer School on Human Rights, which is held every year in the Belarusian HRH, met Tamara Chikunova, who founded the “Mothers Against the Death Penalty and Torture” organization, after her only son was shot in Tashkent.

З удзельнікамі летняй школы па правах чалавека, што кожны год праходзіць у беларускім ДПЧ, сустрэлася Тамара Чыкунова, якая пасля таго, як у Ташкенце расстралялі яе адзінага сына, заснавала арганізацыю “Маці супраць смяротнага пакарання і катаванняў”.