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Belarusian authorities don’t allow Belsat journalists to cover official events, arrest them; moreover, there have recently been increasingly frequent trials and fines.

Белсатаўцаў не пускаюць на афіцыйныя мерапрыемствы, затрымліваюць, а апошнімі месяцамі – усё часцей выклікаюць у суды і штрафуюць.

On 2 August 2017 the chairman of the Belarusian Independent Trade Union of Radio Electronic Industry Workers (REP) Henadz Fiadynich and REP chief accountant Ihar Komlik were arrested in Minsk. Henadz Fiadynich is currently under house arrest, and Ihar Komlik is still in custody. On August 10 they were charged.

2 жніўня 2017 г. ў Мінску былі затрыманыя Генадзь Фядыніч, старшыня Беларускага незалежнага прафсаюза работнікаў радыёэлектроннай прамысловасці (РЭП), што на дадзены момант знаходзіцца пад падпіскай аб нявыездзе, ды галоўны бухгалтар РЭП Ігар Комлік, які дагэтуль утрымліваецца пад вартай. 10 жніўня ім былі выстаўленыя абвінавачанні.

Azerbaijan has taken another step in its crackdown on independent media, launching a criminal case against media outlet the Turan Information Agency on charges of tax evasion.

„Solidarity to Afgan Mukhtarli! Freedom to Afgan Mukhtarli!“ representatives of Human Rights House Tbilisi and its member organizations, other human rights defenders, journalists and civil activists were holding banners with these and other slogans during the protest action in front of the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia. Part of them had polyethylene bags over the heads to protest the abduction of the Azerbaijani journalist and to express their solidarity to him.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHRC) took into consideration the complaint of Vladimir Katsora, one of Homel spring protests activists.

Group of ultranationalists marched along the Aghmashenebeli avenue in the center of Tbilisi on July 14. The protest was called “Georgian march”. The organizers of the Georgian March voiced their “official claim” to make immigration law stricter and to deport “illegal and criminal” migrants from Georgia. However, the statement disseminated by the organizers contained clearly xenophobic demands, like: “For the Georgian Georgia”.
Representatives of the civil society, civil activists, human rights organizations actively protested the so-called March of the Georgians, the July 14 rally of the ultranationalists’ group in Tbilisi.

Упраўленне Вярхоўнага камісара ААН па правах чалавека (КПЧ ААН) прыняло да разгляду скаргу аднаго з гомельскіх актывістаў вясновых акцый пратэстаў Уладзіміра Кацоры.