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По решению Правления Центра в его состав была включена еще одна организация.

„The Belarusian election was severely flawed due to arbitrary use of state power and restrictions on basic rights“, – stated OSCE. Even more saddening was the authorities’ tactics to address opposition’s protests after the closure of polling stations on 19 December evening: hundreds of people were arrested not only on Independence Square in Minsk, but also at their homes and offices, making many recall the notorious year 1937 in the USSR.

On the 23rd of December, 2010 Russian Research Center for Human Rights will hold a Board Meeting with the aim to consider an application of a newly registered trans-regional organization Center of Caucasian Initiative with the request to integrate the organization into the Center.

Numerous human rights organizations, including the Human Rights House Foundation, addressed Belarusian President Lukashenka with a letter, condemning the brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, detentions and battery of journalists, human rights defenders and opposition candidates during the 19 December post-election rally in Minsk.

A Uyghur journalist working for an official Chinese radio service has been sentenced to life in prison following a secret trial conducted earlier this year. Memetjan Abdulla, an editor for the Uyghur service of the People´s Republic of China National Radio, was sentenced in April in a closed trial in Urumqi, capital of China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Iranian film director Jafar Panahi was sentenced this week to six years in prison and 20 years’ ban from making films, writing any type of screen play, and traveling abroad. Index on Censorship calls on Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, head of the judiciary in Islamic Republic of Iran, to overturn the sentences handed down to the film directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof.

International and Russian human rights organizations, including Human Rights Center Memorial, the Civil Rights Defenders and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee have sent a letter to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressing concern with the lack of effective implementation of its resolution 1738 (2010) on Legal remedies for human rights defenders in North Caucasus.

Арганізацыі Сеткі Дамоў правоў чалавека прынялі адкрыты зварот да прэзідэнта Беларусі, у якім заклікалі вызваліць сотні дэманстрантаў, журналістаў, палітыкаў, затрыманых за мірнае выражэнне сваёй думкі на пл. Незалежнасці ў Мінску ўвечары 19 снежня. Заклапочанасць выклікае і лёс іншых затрыманых.

У звароце на імя прэзідэнта Беларусі арганізацыі Сеткі Дамоў правоў чалавека асудзілі разгон дэманстрантаў, арышты і збіцці журналістаў, праваабаронцаў і апазіцыйных кандыдатаў, што адбыліся пасля прэзідэнцкіх выбараў.

The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR) is concerned about the post-election situation in the Republic of Belarus. In a statement issued today, the Foundation protests against the massive violations of human rights by Belarusian officials related to the presidential elections held yesterday, 19 December 2010.

The Human Rights House Network strongly condemns the arrests of the demonstrators, opposition politicians, journalists and human rights defenders and disproportionate use of violence against them in the aftermath of the 19 December presidential election in the Republic of Belarus. More than 600 people were arrested and hundreds were injured.

As a part of “Better Justice System” (Lepszy Wymiar Sprawiedliwości) two NGOs: the Civic Development Forum and the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights published a report on the availability of judicial decisions in the Republic of Poland. The aim of the program is to diagnose the current problems of the Polish judiciary and to formulate recommendations in order to reform it.