Latest

Алена Лебядзінская (на фота) паведаміла, што па дарозе дадому пасля адкрыцця помніка ахвярам тэракту 11 красавіка яе схапілі двое невядомых, ударылі, пасадзілі ў мікрааўтобус і павезлі ў міліцыю.

International NGOs from Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, including Norwegian Helsinki Committee, launched a joint campaign for the removal of the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship from Belarus due to the country’s poor human rights record.

International NGOs from Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, including Norwegian Helsinki Committee launched a joint campaign for the removal of the 2014 Ice Hockey World Championship from Belarus due to the country’s poor human rights record.

ARTICLE 19 calls for lifting of the blanket ban on all protests on the Habib Bourguiba Avenue of the Tunisian capital and for investigation into the heavy-handed tactics used by Tunisian security forces to disperse thousands of protestors – including journalists, unionist and civil society representatives – that were commemorating Martyrs’ Day on the Avenue on 9 April 2012.

Belarussian opposition politician and 2010 presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was released from prison on Saturday.

14 красавіка на свабоду выйшаў экс-кандыдат у прэзідэнты Андрэй Саннікаў (на фота). 15 красавіка раніцай быў вызвалены Зміцер Бандарэнка, давераная асоба кандыдата ў прэзідэнты Андрэя Саннікава. Указ аб памілаванні падпісаў прэзідэнт Беларусі Аляксандр Лукашэнка.

In 2011, more than 60,000 people sought help in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after exhausting all judicial remedies before national courts. Now some EU member states propose reforms of this institution because of a huge number of applications. Dozens of European organizations see these efforts as a threat and call to refrain from further reforms of the ECHR.

In March 2012, the European Court of Human Rights accepted a unilateral declaration of the Polish Government and decided to strike the case of Sroka v. Poland off the case list. The case concerned the criminal judgement against an editor-in-chief found guilty of refusing to publish a correction to an article.

In Katowice, a tactical unit of the police deployed to arrest a wanted criminal targeted the wrong apartment and subdued an innocent couple. The HFHR issued a letter to the Chief Commissioner of the Police, expressing concern over the course of the unit’s action.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development must maintain demands that Turkmenistan and Belarus meet set benchmarks before any investments in the restrictive countries are made. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee participated in a meeting at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, discussing the Bank’s balanced approach towards Belarus and Turkmenistan.

Burma’s by-elections on 1 April have been widely covered by international media. Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she hopes Sunday’s by-elections marked the start of a new era in Burma.

Former political prisoner, 23-year-old Aliaksandr Malchanau (right) was found guilty of stealing scrap metal from a closed workshop of a metal stamping plant. The ex-prisoner had no other ways to make a living.