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Two banks in Warsaw did not allow a 84-year-old citizen Józef Głuchowski to use their toilets. The man believes that it was detrimental to his dignity and the right to intimacy. He decided to sue the banks for violating his personal rights. He demands a 15,000 PLN compensation and apology. The banks want the lawsuit to be dismissed.

On February 18, the first political trial begins in Belarus. The fate of the rest of the prisoners will depend on the European reaction to this first one. On 

January 31, the EU imposed sanctions on the Belarusian leadership. The opposition expected a new wave of repression as a backlash. Unable to harm the hated Europe, Lukashenka has often vented his anger on the domestic carriers of European values. Dictators are used to propagating the idea of the opposition as “foreign agents”.

On 31 January, a bill that would allow for a referendum on the extension of President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s term of office until 2020 was rejected by the Constitutional Council of Kazakhstan as un-constitutional. Instead, Nazarbayev has announced snap elections on 3 April. The idea of referendum was criticized by international community, elections however will not bring anything new if they are not democratic, NHC says.

“Спачатку адвакатка ахвотна згадзілася бараніць Іру. Мы склалі дамову, і раптам яна тэлефануе і адмаўляецца,” – апавядае бацька вядомай журналісткі Ірыны Халіп. Гэта ўжо другі адвакат, які адмовіўся абараняць маці “сям’і палітвязняў”, жонку Андрэя Саннікава. Адвакаты суседніх краін не сумняюцца – на беларускіх юрыстаў цісне рэжым.

A delegation from the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court today concluded a two-day visit to the Russian Federation.

Sri Lanka has been home to one of the longest civil wars in recent history, yet this conflict has gone relatively unreported and attacks upon journalists are widespread.

How do literary writers speak truth to power? What can novels, plays and poems say about world politics? Does censorship provoke new forms of creativity? And why is there so little contemporary British literature about political power?

This six-part course, led by Dr Sophie Mayer, will consider some of the best known and most dramatic challenges to free speech: attacks on poems, plays, novels and films.

11-14 марта 2011 года в Белорусском доме прав человека состоится вторая международная конференция проекта “Электронное обучение адвокатов правам человека” для участников из Азербайджана, Беларуси, Грузии и России.

On 11-14 March 2011, the Belarusian HRH will host the second international conference within the framework of the Project “Electronic Human Rights Education for Lawyers” for project participants from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Russia.

Civil society organisations from around the world, including Article 19, Writers in Prison Committee and Index on Censorship, are calling on Egyptian and international bodies to respect freedom of expression and the right to information.

Fourteen years ago on 5 February 1997 hundreds of Uyghurs were killed or imprisoned after participating in a peaceful demonstration in the city of Ghulja in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), China. No-one has been held accountable for the brutal crackdown on the non-violent protest, persecution of Uyghurs continues rebranded as part of the international “war on terror”.