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The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) has passed an important resolution on the independence of lawyers, incorporating robust language against reprisals, and strengthening the implementation of guarantees and immunities.

On 15 June, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a vital resolution on the enforced disappearance of Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli from Georgia. HRHF welcomes this swift response, which occurred as HRHF delivered a statement at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) calling for action on the deteriorating situation in Azerbaijan.

On 14 June Miklós Haraszti presented the fifth report on the situation with human rights in Belarus during the 35th UN Human Rights Council session.

14 чэрвеня Міклаш Харасці прадставіў пяты даклад па сітуацыі з правамі чалавека ў Беларусі на 35 сесіі Савета па правах чалавека ААН .

Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Mukhtarli suddenly went missing in Tbilisi, Georgia, on the night of 29 May, leaving his relatives and colleagues without news until the next day, when he was able to contact his lawyer from the State Border Service İnvestigation Unit in Azerbaijan.

Representatives of the Belarusian human rights organisations demand the immediate release of all defendants in the case of “preparing mass riots”.

“Imagine a world without civil society; it is bleak,” said Human Rights House Foundation in a statement at the UN Human Rights Council, as it alerted the Council about State policies which aim to limit and silence their own civil societies.

Прадстаўнікі беларускіх праваабарончых арганізацый патрабуюць неадкладнага вызвалення ўсіх фігурантаў справы “аб падрыхтоўцы масавых беспарадкаў”.

From 30 May to 1 June, Valiantsin Stefanovich, lawyer of the Human Rights Center “Viasna”, and Anna Gerasimova, Director of the Barys Zvozskau Belarusian Human Rights House, met with the delegations of various countries to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to inform them about the situation with human rights in Belarus.