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Political prisoner Eduard Lobau has been released from Ivatsevichy penal colony No. 22 at about 8 a.m on 18 December. He was met by his family, journalists and supporters with the words “Long Live Belarus!”.

Палітвязня Эдуарда Лобава 18 снежня вызвалілі з Івацэвіцкай папраўчай калоніі №22 ў 8 гадзін раніцы. Яго сустракалі сям’я, журналісты і паплечнікі воклічам “Жыве Беларусь!”.

10 December 1948 Universal Declaration on Human Rights was signed. Two years after, General Assembly of the UN has proclaimed 10th December as the International Human Rights Day.

On the eve of Human Rights Day – on 9 December, Vilnius hosted a discussion with Belarusian and Lithuanian human rights defenders, civic activists and relatives of political prisoners, as well as an opening of photo exhibition dedicated to the death penalty in Belarus.

9 снежня, напярэдадні Дня правоў чалавека, у Вільні прайшла дыскусія з беларускімі і літоўскімі праваабаронцамі, грамадскімі дзеячамі і сваякамі палітзняволеных, а таксама адкрыццё фотавыставы, прысвечанай праблеме смяротнага пакарання ў Беларусі.

UN Human Rights Committee on condemned the violation of Belarus’s international legal obligations through the execution of Aliaksandr Hrunou whose case was considered by the HRC at the time. HRC requested Belarusian authorities to suspend the execution of the sentence until the consideration of the case, but the sentence was carried out, and now the case will be considered, despite the fact that the applicant had already been shot.

Panel discussion in relation to the right to peaceful protests in Bern, organised by the Swiss Departement of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with HRHF.

On ludicrous charges of incitement to suicide, the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova was sentenced to 2 months pre-trial detention today, Friday, 5 December 2014. She is a well-known independent investigative journalist, who owned many awards.

Since August 2014, the human rights defender Emin Huseynov of Azerbaijan has been forced into hiding. He is spending his 35th birthday on 4 December in hiding. At the occasion of our birthday, we repeat our call upon Azerbaijani authorities to immediately and unconditionally drop all pending charges against him.

Belarusian Human Rights House together with Freedom House invites you to the discussion “Spotlight on the Human Rights in Belarus: Challenges and Expectations before 2015” and the opening of the exhibition “Capital Punishment”. The event organized on the occasion of the International Human
Rights Day will take place on 9 December at 14:00 at the European Information Office of the Seimas (Seimas Building 3, Gedimino av. 53). The language of the event will be Russian and English with the translation to Lithuanian.

Беларускі Дом правоў чалавека сумесна з Freedom House запрашае вас на дыскусію “Сітуацыя з правамі чалавека ў Беларусі ў цэнтры ўвагі: выклікі і чаканні напярэдадні 2015 года” і адкрыццё выставы “Вышэйшая мера”. Мерапрыемства, арганізаванае з нагоды Міжнароднага дня правоў чалавека, адбудзецца 9 снежня ў 14:00 у Еўрапейскім інфармацыйным бюро Сойма Літоўскай Рэспублікі (Вільнюс, пр-т Гедыміна, 53, будынак 3). Мовы мерапрыемства – руская і англійская з перакладам на літоўскую.

Internally displaced people from the occupied territories residing in the former buildings of the sanatoriums Friendship and Metallurgist in Tskaltubo district request new accommodations – the buildings of the former sanatoriums are in poor conditions. The Ministry of IDPs from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees offered the IDPs to resettle in other regions of Georgia. Some of the IDPs do not want to leave Tskaltubo, saying they have buried their relatives there and have lived in the district for a long time.