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“The status of court experts, and in particular the rules governing the review of their skills and competences, should be set out in statute”, concludes the report “Court Experts in Poland” launched during a press conference held in the headquarters of the Polish Business Roundtable.

The Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Cracow has refused to officially recognise Mustafa al-Hawsawi as a victim in the probe into the operations of a secret CIA facility in Poland. Mr al-Hawsawi is reported to have been detained and tortured on Polish soil. His attorney, advocate Bogumił Zygmont, said he would appeal against the prosecutor office’s decision.

26-year-old Homel resident Aliaksandr Hrunou has been repeatedly sentenced to death. According to the lawyer, the young man does not believe that he can be pardoned by the President, and therefore he is not sure whether he will apply for clemency.

Responding to the Helsinki Foundation’s query about whether or not the Central Anti-corruption Bureau uses the Remote Control System software, the Bureau said that the HFHR’s question should be deemed a request for information on the applicable law and as such remains outside the scope of the Access to Public Information Act. The Foundation asked the same question of the Internal Security Agency. On 27 March 2014 the ISA responded that it did not use the Remote Control System software.

The European Court of Justice declared the Data Retention Directive to be invalid in the judgment issued on 8 April 2014 in Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12. According to the Directive telecommunications services providers were obliged to retain data of phone calls made by citizens of the European Union, including traffic and location data. The enactment also allowed courts, law enforcement authorities and secret services to access such data.

26-гадовы гамяльчук Аляксандр Груноў паўторна асуджаны на смяротнае пакаранне. Па словах адваката, малады чалавек не верыць у тое, што яго можа памілаваць прэзідэнт, а таму пакуль невядома, ці будзе ён наогул падаваць прашэнне аб памілаванні.

Punitive psychiatry is increasingly used in Belarus to stop dissent. On March 27, Andrei Kasheuski, a resident of Zhodzina, was released from the National Centre for Mental Health in Minsk, after spending there a month over a yellow-blue ribbon he brought from the Ukrainian Maidan.

After a three-day hearing the Constitutional Tribunal adjourned sine die the ruling on a case involving control over secret services. The case has been brought on the initiative of the Human Rights Defender and Prosecutor General. The applicants argue a constitutional violation caused by the absence of a clearly defined set of technical measures which may be used as covert investigative methods.

Карная псіхіятрыя ўсё часцей выкарыстоўваецца ў Беларусі для спынення іншадумства. 27 сакавіка з псіхіятрычнага шпіталя быў выпісаны жыхар горада Жодзіна Андрэй Кашэўскі, які правёў там роўна месяц за жоўта-блакітную стужку, прывезеную з ўкраінскага Майдану.

The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw dismissed the complaint of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights against the Central Anti-corruption Bureau’s decision refusing disclosure of information on surveillance and PRISM programme.

Сеть домов прав человека и партнеры из стран-участниц проекта «Международное право для защиты общественных интересов. Дистанционное обучение адвокатов правам человека» объявляют конкурс на участие в международной конференции проекта, которая состоится в Вильнюсе (Литва) 2-3 июня 2014 года.