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Members and partners of the Human Rights House Network writes to the Governor of the Voronezh region, Aleksey Gordeev, to express deep concern over the actions taken by the Municipality which result in the fact, that he Human Rights House Voronezh, one of the networks members may be let without premises.

Article 19, Civil Rights Defenders, Human Rights House Foundation, Human Rights Watch, International Media Support, Media Diversity Institute, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, Open Society Foundations, PEN International, People in Need Organisation and Reporters without Borders writes to the president to express a profound concern regarding the continued harassment and intimidation of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova and the resulting interference in her work.

The members of the Human Rights House Tbilisi condemn once more the practice of torture and inhuman treatment of prisoners at the penitentiary department of Georgia during the previous government. The fact was confirmed again by the additional video material found out in the special cache in Zugdidi (Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region) on June 17 and 21.

The members of the Human Rights House Tbilisi are deeply concerned about fact of violent attack on LGBT activists who were assembling on May 17 for a peaceful rally to mark the international Day against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO).

Members and partners of the Human Rights House Network and the South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defenders condemn further restrictions to the right to freedom of association in Azerbaijan, especially affecting the work and activities of human rights defenders, and call for the end of harassment of human rights organisations.

Call for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defenders, journalists and activists detained in relation to the peaceful protest held in Baku on Saturday 26 January 2013.

Norwegian Helsinki Committee is concerned with the reports that a conference aiming at discussing freedom of the internet allows restrictions on contributions from civil society – input that would contribute to a more open and relevant discussion, says Bjørn Engesland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

On 2 April 1997, while covering a protest against the proposed reunification of Belarus with Russia, a Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip witnessed her father, a documentary filmmaker, get beaten unconscious. She herself was clubbed by riot police. That incident only galvanized her to continue to expose corruption in Belarus, especially as a journalist for the Minsk bureau of the investigative paper Novaya Gazeta (the paper of slain reporter Anna Politkovskaya).

On October 29, the Georgian Center for Psycho-Social and Medical Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (GCRT) gave a press-conference in the office of the Open Society –Georgia Foundation on the Conditions of Juvenile Prisoners.