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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.

In this letter, the Human Rights House Foundation, thanks the Ombudsperson in Voronezh for taking the time to meet in Voronezh, October. The Human Rights House Foundation appreciate the Ombudsperson`s moral support to the Human Rights House Voronezh and the Ombudspersons effort to solve the issues with the lease of municipal facilities.

Human Rights House Tbilisi’s member organizations condemn incitement to violence by the newspaper Asaval-Dasavali, which published personal data of Gldani Prison Personnel in their edition with the headline “Recognize the Butchers!”

Human Rights House Tbilisi’s member organizations condemn incitement to violence by the newspaper Asaval-Dasavali, which published personal data of Gldani Prison Personnel in their edition with the headline “Recognize the Butchers!”

Call for the immediate release and dropping of the charges against human rights defender Ales Bialiatski and discontinuation of harassment and degrading treatment against him whilst in prison.

Members and partners of Human Rights House Network are very concerned about footage of torture and ill treatment in Georgian prisons.

Nongovernmental organizations condemn practice of torture and inhuman treatment in penitentiary system, request prompt investigation of the facts and to raise criminal and political responsibilities of perpetrators.