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The President of the Supreme Court has disclosed to the HFHR a report compiled by the team responsible for implementing the procedure for publication Court’s decisions and deletion of any sensitive data contained in such rulings. The President of the Supreme Court set up this team in May 2011.

On 16 January, Belarusian Human Rights House in conjunction with the Human Rights Centre “Viasna” and the civil campaign “Our Home” presented the book, calendar, children’s colouring book, postcards, and a number of video clips dedicated to the participants of 2010 Ploshcha – a peaceful protest that took place in Belarus on 19 December, 2010 against irregularities that occurred during the presidential elections in Belarus.

16 студзеня ў Беларускім Доме правоў чалавека супольна з Праваабарончым цэнтрам “Вясна” і Грамадзянскай кампаніяй “Наш Дом” прайшла прэзентацыя кнігі, дзіцячай размалёўкі, паштоўкі і відэа кліпа, прысвечаных удзельнікам Плошчы-2010 – мірнай акцыі пратэсту супраць парушэнняў падчас выбараў прэзідэнта Рэспублікі Беларусь, што прайшла ў Беларусі 19 снежня 2010 года.

Last week 7 journalists were detained in the semi-autonomous republic of Somaliland. On 14 January the police stormed the headquarters of a private TV network and sealed the offices. As a result, on 15 January Somaliland journalists gathered peacefully in front of the Presidential Palace to demonstrate against the media crackdown. The police disrupted the demonstration, 22 journalists were taken into custody.

The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is appalled by the killing of Raúl Régulo Garza Quirino, reporter for the weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra. The journalist was gunned down on 6 January 2012 by a gang in Cadereyta, state of Nuevo León, and is the first journalist in Mexico to be murdered in 2012. The WiPC calls on the Mexican authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into Garza’s killing and to bring to an end Mexico’s climate of impunity in which attacks such as these take place

On 10 January another complaint from Belarus was submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee. However, for the first time a Belarusian complains about forced fingerprinting.

In December 2011 the Circuit Court in Świdnica heard the appeal in the case of an allegedly defamatory statement included in a reader’s article sent to a newspaper. The Court reversed the judgement entered by the District (first-instance) Court in September 2011 and remanded the case for retrial. The District Court will be hearing the case for the third time.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is concerned by the information about actions taken by the Military Circuit Prosecution Office in Poznań who requested the disclosure of the phone data of three journalists of national media investigating the crash of the presidential plane near Smolensk, Russia.

Чарговая скарга з Беларусі накіравана 10 студзеня ў Камітэт ААН па правах чалавека. Але ўпершыню беларус скардзіцца на прымусовую дактыласкапію.