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The US Department of State has issued a report on human rights practices for 2012. 61-page report on Georgia reflects the main human rights trends in the country.

15 красавіка ў віленскім кінатэатры Skalvija адбыўся прэм’ерны прагляд фільма пра катаванні і выпадкі жосткага стаўлення да людзей з боку супрацоўнікаў сілавых структур ў Беларусі . Таксама была арганізаваная дыскусія з рэжысёрам, праваабаронцамі, былымі палітвязнямі і сваякамі тых, хто сутыкнуўся з праявамі гвалту з боку супрацоўнікаў праваахоўных органаў.

On Thursday, 16 April 2013, the Warsaw’s Court of Appeal heard the appeal in the personal interests infringement case brought by Bogdan Wróblewski, a journalist with Gazeta Wyborcza, against the Head of the Central Anticorruption Bureau. The claimant, now the appellee, alleged that the CAB had unlawfully acquired journalist’s telecommunication data, including his phone records, for a period of six months in the years 2005–2007. The first-instance court ruled for Mr Wróblewski.

Forty one copies of the album “Belarus Press Photo-2011” were confiscated and considered as extremist according to the expert evaluation. The photographers and organizers of the contest “Belarus Press Photo’ were summonsed to the court as “interested parties”.

The HFHR applied to the Minister of Transport, Construction and Maritime Economy, stressing the need to elaborate provisions of the Tenant Protection Act. Under current regulations, a debtor who raises objections as to the standard of housing offered to them by municipal authorities faces a risk of being evicted into the streets.

Welcome to toKino, the festival of Belarusian and Lithuanian No Budget Films to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 28th May – 1st June, 2013. toKino is a festival of no budget films created by authors’ own resources or cinema clubs as well as non-profit and non-institutional projects.

З 28 траўня да 1 чэрвеня ў Вільні (Літва) пройдзе беларуска-літоўскі фестываль небюджэтнага кіно – “toKino”. “toKino” – гэта фестываль небюджэтных фільмаў, створаных на сродкі аўтараў або ў рамках кінаклубаў, некамерцыйных і неінстытуцыяналізаваных праектаў.

41 асобнік альбома “Прэс-фота Беларусі – 2011” канфіскаваны і прызнаны экстрэмісцкім на падставе экспертнай ацэнкі. Фатографы і арганізатары конкурсу «Прэс-фота Беларусі» выкліканыя ў суд у якасці “зацікаўленых асоб”.

At the end of February and in early March 2013, more than ten secondary school graduates lodged constitutional complaints with the Constitutional Tribunal requesting the constitutional review of the law not allowing for any appeal against a decision to annul secondary school leaving examination.

On 28 March 2013, the Supreme Court adopted a seven-judge resolution holding that an assessment of the excessive length of judicial proceedings covers the entirety of the litigation. It means that courts adjudicating cases initiated by a complaint for an excessive length of proceedings must review the entire procedural course of the case, covering the period starting with the case filing until its final resolution, regardless of the case procedural stage at which the excessive length complaint has been actually filed.

On 15 April Lithuanian film festival “Inconvenient films” together with Belarusian Human Rights House invite to the première viewing of the film about torture and ill-treatment of people by the officers of security forces in Belarus. The screening is followed by discussion with the director and the heroes of the film.

15 красавіка літоўскі кінафестываль “Нязручнае кіно” і Беларускі Дом правоў чалавека запрашаюць на прэм’ерны прагляд фільма пра катаванні і выпадкі жосткага стаўлення да людзей з боку супрацоўнікаў сілавых структур ў Беларусі і дыскусію з рэжысёрам і героямі фільма пасля прэм’еры.