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The HFHR has appealed to Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament and to the European External Action Service on the conditions of detention and treatment of Ales Belyatsky, a Belarusian human rights defender, who is currently serving his time in a penal colony. Mr Belyatsky was sentenced to four and half years in a high-security colony and property forfeiture for alleged tax evasion.

The HFHR requested General Krzysztof Bondaryk, head of the Internal Security Agency, to take decisive actions in the case of repetitive anti-Semitic assaults in Lublin. In its intervention, the HFHR recalled the case of Tomasz Pietrasiewicz, leader of The Grodzka Gate –Theatre NN in Lublin.

The United Nations Human Rights Council began its debate on the human rights situation in Belarus on Wednesday 27 June 2012. Follow live on Wednesday and Thursday.

It has been five years since the EU adopted its Strategy for a New Partnership with Central Asia. As EU foreign ministers prepare to take stock of progress so far, a number of civil society organizations, including Norwegian Helsinki Committee, would like to suggest ways to improve the effectiveness and impact of EU action to promote human rights in Central Asia.

Выпускнікі праекта “Імплементацыя дэ-факта міжнародных абавязацельстваў Рэспублікі Беларусь у галіне грамадзянскіх правоў і свабод” распрацавалі і апублікавалі матэрыялы пра праблемы адвакатуры і праблемы ў галіне абароны правоў тых, хто падвяргаецца крымінальнаму і адміністратыўнаму пераследу ў Беларусі.

NGOs call for the government of Azerbaijan to take measures to ensure the right to freedom of expression

The rapidly deteriorating human rights situation clearly demonstrate Azerbaijan’s unwillingness to fully implement its human rights commitments.

Fifty-seven journalists fled their country in the past year, seven of them fled Somalia. Three other East and Horn African countries – Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Rwanda – also rank among the top 10. More than a quarter of those who fled their homes from June 2011 to May 2012 came from an East African nation, Committee to Protect Journalists reports.

On 21 June journalist Andrzej Poczobut (right) was arrested in his apartment in Hrodna. The criminal case under the article “libel against the President of the Republic of Belarus” is initiated against him on the grounds of his several publications on Belarusian news web-sites.