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The Homel resident Aliaksandr Hrunou, who had been sentenced to death, was executed by shooting. It was learned on 4 November from his mother Volha Hrunova. Human rights defenders protest against this form of punishment and are concerned about another convict, who awaits for the execution.

As the Chairmanship of the Council of Europe by Azerbaijan takes an end, 46 NGOs from 10 Human Rights Houses call upon authorities in Azerbaijan to put an end to the unprecedented repression against civil society and to immediately and unconditionally release all civil society actors currently detained due to their engagement for human rights and for raising critics against Azerbaijan’s authorities.

46 NGOs from 10 Human Rights Houses call upon Azerbaijan to stop the on going suppression of civil society, as Azerbaijan’s chairmanship of the Council of Europe ends. The NGOs further call for the immediately and unconditionally release all civil society actors currently detained due to their engagement for human rights and for raising critics against Azerbaijan’s authorities, including and especially human rights defenders Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, Rasul Jafarov, and Intigam Aliyev. Anar Mammadli and Bashir Suleymanli must also be released

Асуджаны да смяротнага пакарання жыхар Гомеля Аляксандр Груноў расстраляны. Пра гэта стала вядома 4 лістапада ад яго маці Вольгі Груновай. Праваабаронцы выказваюць пратэст супраць такога віда пакарання і непакояцца за яшчэ аднаго асуджанага, што чакае выканання прысуда.

According to official data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia [MIA], 77 incidents of physical and 122 incidents of psychological violence in families were observed from January to June 2014 in Georgia. About 30 women were killed as a result of domestic violence the last year.

Belarusian and international human rights organizations have launched a campaign in support of the well-known Belarusian human rights defender Elena Tonkacheva (right), chairman of the Legal Transformation Center Lawtrend, who was deprived of her residence permit in Belarus and ordered to leave the country for 3 years.

Беларускія і міжнародныя праваабарончыя арганізацыі распачалі кампанію ў падтрымку вядомай беларускай праваабаронцы Алены Танкачовай (на фота), старшыні Праўлення Цэнтра прававой трансфармацыі Lawtrend, якую пазбавілі віда на жыхарства ў Беларусі і абавязалі пакінуць краіну на 3 гады.

The construction of the residential blocks # 204 and 205 started in Zgvisubani micro district II close to Tbilisi Sea in 1990s. From 2003 homeless people started to occupy spaces in the semi-constructed blocks. The inhabitants claim they renovated the spaces with their own resources before 2007 and created there a minimum of living conditions. In 2006 the buildings were registered as a state property and assigned to the Tbilisi City Hall in 2008; the latter assigned the building to Metromsheni. Nevertheless, the dispute about the flats in the blocks is still going on. Since 2007 there have been several attempts of eviction of the homeless people from the blocks. Last notification about planned eviction was sent to the inhabitants on October 14, 2014. 67 families will not leave the flats. They renovated the flats with their own resources and plan to struggle to keep them.

On October 23, mobile group of human rights defenders from Human Rights House Tbilisi (HRHT) paid visit to the Mokhe village in Adigeni municipality to study situation on the place. The organization is concerned about the controversy between local Muslims and Orthodox people and calls on the government to reach compromise between conflicting parties and resolve the tense situation.

In the framework of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, representatives of the official Minsk oppose cooperation with the Special Rapporteur Miklós Haraszti, question the lawfulness of the actions of the Belarusian human rights defenders.

У рамках 69-й сесіі Генасамблеі ААН у Нью-Ёрку прадстаўнікі афіцыйнага Мінска выказваюцца супраць супрацоўніцтва са спецдакладчыкам Міклашам Харасціі падвяргаюць сумневу правамернасць дзеянняў беларускіх праваабаронцаў.

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, (right) has prepared a report that will be presented on 28 October during the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.One of the recommendations presented to the authorities of Belarus is the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.